About us
Hi there 👋 The UX Book Club will help you reach your reading goals with must-read UX, Product, Tech and Innovation books in a global community of design thinkers and doers.
Whether you want to read more, learn together, network or talk with more confidence in professional discussions, anyone is welcome to attend our FREE, online book club meets.
// Open To All //
Our focus is UX, Product, Tech and Innovation, but book choices range in focus and perspective. All levels and backgrounds are welcome :)
// When & Where //
We run bi-monthly global online book clubs focusing on our featured book via Zoom. We also run one-off virtual events and masterclasses featuring authors and contributors. We are always on the lookout for contributors, so get in touch with suggestions!
// Code of Conduct //
https://www.meetup.com/theuxbookclub/messages/boards/thread/53097975
// Connect! //
Linkedin Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13935765/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theuxbookclub/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/theuxbc
Slack Channel: https://join.slack.com/t/slack-uby8817/shared_invite/zt-r0lclhua-i6shokgHHZ_ldRT72mKAWA
Upcoming events
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Shipping with AI - Live in-person event
Nintex, 14/530 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia, Melbourne, AUHi folks,
Exciting news. The UX Book Club is sponsoring an awesome live in-person event, happening in Melbourne Australia on 11 November. The event is an AI meetup. RSVP quick! Details below.
// OVERVIEW
The Shipping with AI meetup (formerly UX Design in SaaS) has partnered with the Outlook AI Conference 2026 to bring you an in-person evening as part of the conference activities.Shipping with AI is a meetup for designers, product managers and engineers who want to move past the hype and learn how AI is actually being used to build and ship real products. No theory-heavy keynotes. Just demos, real workflows and practical tips you can take back to your team the next day.
// WHAT IS HAPPENING
Our three speakers come at AI from different angles: delivery in regulated industries, engineering and AI agents, and design quality. They'll each share how their teams are shipping with AI right now. That includes the tools, the workflows, what's working, and what they've learned the hard way.Expect presentations, live demos, Q&A, drinks, food, games, prizes and plenty of time to network.
// WHEN
6:00pm – 8:30pm, Wednesday 11th November// WHERE
Nintex Offices, Level 14, 530 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000// WHY COME ALONG
- See it, don't just hear about it. Live demos of real AI workflows, not slides about the future.
- Practical takeaways. Tips and tricks you can try with your team straight away.
- Three perspectives in one night. Delivery, engineering and design, so you get the full picture of what it takes to ship with AI.
- Ask the hard questions. How do you keep AI output on-brand? How do you bring AI into regulated businesses safely? How do you give coding agents the right context?
- Meet your people. Connect with Melbourne designers, PMs and engineers working through the same challenges.
- It's free, and there's food, drinks and prizes.
// OUR SPEAKERS
ANASTAS MANOJLOVSKI – Technical Director, Whitefox Cloud Consulting
Anastas has spent 20 years where customers, sales and engineering meet. He specialises in turning messy problems into solutions that actually get delivered. At Whitefox he leads sales and delivery for clients in financial services, insurance, health and logistics, and oversees 25+ engineers across Australia and offshore. His work includes governed Claude adoption with human review and audit trails for financial advice provider Padua, and AI road-defect detection models running in production. Before Whitefox, he spent nine years at Whispir, including five as AU/NZ Head of Solution Architecture. Anastas brings a grounded view on getting AI into regulated businesses without creating new risk.TOM PETERSON – Co-Founder, ctxpipe.ai
Tom is a builder who orchestrates local and cloud AI models to get things done, fast. He is co-founder of ctxpipe.ai, an open-source, Git-backed context layer for coding agents and software factories. He is also Head of Product at TRU Rec AI, building computer vision analytics with open-source models. With 15 years in tech across project management, business analysis, design, product and founding, Tom is passionate about developer experience and building tools that make engineers' lives easier. Previously, he co-founded Appear, an API discovery and automation tool.HAMISH O'NEILL – Founder, UI Rules
Hamish is a multi-award-winning design leader with more than two decades in digital product design across retail, telecommunications, finance and digital marketplaces. He is the founder of UI Rules, a governance layer that serves brand and design system rules to AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code and v0, keeping AI-generated interfaces on-brand. Previously, Hamish was Head of Design Systems at Carsales, where he led the team behind the Torq design system. Before that he was Design Chapter Lead and Design Lead for the Brand & Design System at ANZ.// OUTLOOK AI CONFERENCE
The Outlook AI Conference 2026 is on Thursday 12th November in Melbourne and is not to be missed. Tickets are on sale now.// SPONSORS
A big thank you to Nintex and the UX Book Club, our amazing sponsors, for making this event happen.4 attendees
📖 Click: How to Make What People Want
·OnlineOnlineJoin us for the UX book club on Wednesday, December 9, where we’ll chat about the book Right Kind of Wrong: How the Best Teams Use Failure to Succeed
by Amy Edmondson.//ABOUT THE BOOK //
In Right Kind of Wrong, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson explains that top-performing teams do not fear all mistakes, but instead distinguish productive, well-calculated experiments from preventable errors.
The best teams use a clear framework to categorise setbacks and extract valuable lessons rather than assigning blame.
The Three Archetypes of Failure- Basic failures happen in familiar situations due to inattention, tiredness, or broken rules. They are mostly preventable and offer little new learning.
- Complex failures happen when multiple unexpected factors combine in a messy, shifting environment. They stem from system gaps rather than a single person's mistake.
- Intelligent failures happen in completely new territory while chasing a credible goal. The team does their research, forms a testable hypothesis, and keeps the failure as small as possible to gain new knowledge.
How the Best Teams Harness Failure
- Psychological safety ensures workers feel safe speaking up and sharing mistakes early without fear of punishment or embarrassment.
- Blameless root-cause analysis focuses on the sequence of events ("what happened") instead of pointing fingers ("who did it"), turning setbacks into organisational investments.
- Small-scale testing limits the damage of new ideas while maximising the discovery of vital information that cannot be found any other way.
👉🏽 Audible Book -> Right Kind of Wrong - How the best teams use failure to succeed
// FAQ //
Q. I've no background in UX, is it ok for me to attend?
A. Yes, The UX Book Club is open to anyone who wants to read more, learn together, network or talk with more confidence in professional discussions.
Q. What do you do at UX Book Club meetups?
A. We have a short intro to the book in focus, talk about it, and sometimes there are questions. Breakout rooms are sometimes used to help make larger events a little more personal :)
Q. How Do I Attend?
A. You can join our online book clubs via Zoom and we'll message participants with a meeting link before the event.
Q. What if I haven't read or finished the book?
A. Come anyway!
Q. Do you have a Code of Conduct?
A. Yes, you can find it here:
https://www.meetup.com/theuxbookclub/messages/boards/thread/53097975
Message the organisers and we'll do our best to answer your questions.10 attendees
Past events
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