Jess Witt

Jess Witt

Lead Consultant: Strategy & Design

Versent

Design Shapes Context, Context Shapes Design

Design Shapes Context, Context Shapes Design

Over five years of working together across multiple projects, we've accumulated real, practical learnings about what it means to bring genuine context awareness into your design process, and this talk is the distillation of that. Through working case studies drawn from our own practice, we walk through the five dimensions of context, showing not just the theory but how we actually apply it day to day. People love to see how others work, and we pull back the curtain on that in a way that's honest, practical, and immediately useful. It's a technical design talk at heart, but it leaves you with something more: a redefinition of the designer's role in a world increasingly shaped by AI. You'll leave with tools you can use tomorrow, a renewed sense of purpose, and a completely ruined relationship with pesto.

Jess Witt

Jess is a strategic product and service designer who bridges creativity and complexity. She helps medium to large organisations map, design, and evolve the systems people interact with every day, to make the complicated feel simple.