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- February Queer Design Assembly
- March DA Conversations speaker or panel events
- May DA Women in Design
- June DA Pub Quiz
- July DA Portfolio Speed Dating Review
- August DA Women in Design
- September DA Conversations speaker or panel events
Throughout 2020, Design Assembly will running a series of ONLINE events in response to the national plan for events and workshops during Covid-19 alert levels. We will aim to hold in-person events and workshops as we can.
June 2020
DA Online Event – Under The Hood, Three Designers & Three Projects with Adobe
Thanks to our event partners Adobe, you are invited to join us online as three designers walk us through how a design project worked. Thursday 4 June 12.30pm - 1.15pm Online Zoom Webinar Each designer will share the brief, how they approached it, talk us through that internal feedback loop - This is too hard! It's not working! Why did I decide to be a designer?! - and out to the other side to client love and project success. All…
Find out more »UX Gym Workshop Auckland – User Research
Probably no other area of design has more impact on how successful your initial design decisions are going to be than user research. Most of us aren’t designing for ourselves, and a good understanding of who our users are and what their needs are is vital for successful design. This course teaches you how to identify the best type of research for a project, how to execute your research so you get the most useful results given the time and…
Find out more »July 2020
UX Gym Workshop Wellington: Introduction to User Research
Probably no other area of design has more impact on how successful your initial design decisions are going to be than user research. Most of us aren’t designing for ourselves, and a good understanding of who our users are and what their needs are is vital for successful design. This course teaches you how to identify the best type of research for a project, how to execute your research so you get the most useful results given the time and…
Find out more »UX Gym Workshop Auckland – Information Architecture
Learning how to organise, describe and present the information in your website or app is one of the fundamental skills that makes up UX design. Information architecture is the glue that holds complex digital products together and enables users to navigate and make sense of them.
Find out more »UX Gym Workshop Wellington – Information Architecture
Learning how to organise, describe and present the information in your website or app is one of the fundamental skills that makes up UX design. Information architecture is the glue that holds complex digital products together and enables users to navigate and make sense of them.
Find out more »August 2020
Auckland DA Event: Women in Design
Join us for an informal evening of drinks and food as we come together for relationships to be made, nurtured and supported. Spaces are limited to 30 people. Everyone is welcome. With thanks to our DA Friends – who help to keep DA going and growing, DA Friends attend this event for free. A small cover charge for non-DA Friends helps to cover the admin costs of running these events for the community.
Find out more »UX Gym Workshop Auckland – User Interface Design: Designing for screens
This practical course focuses on design for screens, from application user interfaces to web design. This course could be taken as a complement to one of our user centered design courses or as a stand alone course for designers, developers and product managers who want to learn more about making design decisions for screens.
Find out more »UX Gym Workshop Wellington – User Interface Design: Designing for screens
This practical course focuses on design for screens, from application user interfaces to web design. This course could be taken as a complement to one of our user centered design courses or as a stand alone course for designers, developers and product managers who want to learn more about making design decisions for screens.
Find out more »September 2020
UX Gym Workshop Auckland – Usability Testing & Prototyping
User testing designs through prototyping helps us to safely explore risky ideas, get a feel for how real people will respond to our designs and most importantly lets us fail cheaply and privately instead of publicly and expensively. But how many users do we need? How do we identify what to test? How do we know the way we designed and ran the test is producing valid results? How do we recruit people? How do we integrate user testing into…
Find out more »DA Spring Conversations – Design & Wellness
Design Assembly is delighted to present our DA Conversations Spring 2020 series taking place in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch in September.
Find out more »UX Gym Workshop Wellington – Usability Testing & Prototyping
User testing designs through prototyping helps us to safely explore risky ideas, get a feel for how real people will respond to our designs and most importantly lets us fail cheaply and privately instead of publicly and expensively. But how many users do we need? How do we identify what to test? How do we know the way we designed and ran the test is producing valid results? How do we recruit people? How do we integrate user testing into…
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