User Life centred design by Martin Tomitsch and Steve Baty at Web Directions Next 2024
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User Life centred design
For decades, human-centred design has been the driving force behind innovation. However, it’s becoming increasingly clear that placing the user at the centre of the design process may be doing more harm than good for our global systems and collective wellbeing.
In this talk, we’ll explore a new approach – life-centred design – that encourages a balanced consideration of human, environmental, and ethical perspectives. Diving into the role of systems thinking and futuring, the talk will demonstrate how life-centred design can help organisations reduce their planetary impact and create responsible innovation in an increasingly complex world.
About Martin Tomitsch and Steve Baty
Martin Tomitsch
Professor Martin Tomitsch is a design academic with 20 years of experience in teaching design, facilitating workshops, and conducting design research at universities in Vienna, Paris, Beijing, and Sydney. He is a Professor and Head of the Transdisciplinary (TD) School at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). The TD School operates at the intersection of creativity and innovation and offers transdisciplinary programs, including the award-winning Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation and postgraduate programs in Data Science & Innovation and Creative Intelligence & Strategic Innovation.
Martin is founder of several non-profit organisations, including the Austrian Network for Information and Communication Technologies for Development, the global Media Architecture Institute, and the Life-Centred Design Collective.
Martin’s recent books include Designing Tomorrow – Strategic Design Tactics to Change Your Practice, Your Organisation & Your Planetary Impact and Design Think Make Break Repeat which is a handbook of design methods, now available as a revised edition after having sold over 13,000 copies.
Steve Baty
Steve is well-known in the area of strategic design, contributing to public discourse on these topics through articles and conferences here and internationally.
Steve sits on the Good Design Council of Australia and served on the Judging Panel for the Good Design Awards from 2012-2016. He served on the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) Board of Directors from 2009 to 2014, served as President from 2012 to 2014, and served as Chair of the Interaction|12 conference. Steve is also Chair of Australia’s UX Australia conferences.
Steve is the CEO of the Australian Design Council.
Steve is the co-author of Designing Tomorrow – Strategic Design Tactics to Change Your Practice, Your Organisation & Your Planetary Impact
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