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We also hold a series of online events throughout the year that can be accessed throughout New Zealand and internationally.
Keep an eye on this page, follow us on social media or sign-up to our email at the bottom of the website for all the upcoming events and workshops near you.
May 2020
Postponed: Auckland DA Workshop: Running a Design Studio – Balancing the Duality of Creative and Business Work
We have postponed this workshop due to COVID-19 until further notice. Prices: $300+gst Professional | $200+gst Design Assembly Friend | $50+gst Student Morning tea provided. (Not a DA Friend? Details on how to sign up can be found here) Get Tickets As creative business owners it can be challenging to balance business with creativity, but by structuring your business in a way that allows you to do meaningful work based on your values, it's easier to navigate that duality and build…
Find out more »Postponed: Auckland DA Event: Women in Design
We have postponed this workshop due to COVID-19 until further notice. Join us for an intimate evening with a panel conversation on: Living a life in design - success and support strategies We'll share drinks, food and conversation as we come together for relationships to be made, nurtured and supported. Featuring: Mirella Marie, Founder and Director of Womentor as convenor Laura Cibilich, Director, Run Jodine Bell, Creative Director, Principals Annie Dow, Managing Director, Dow Goodfolk Prices: $30+gst Professional | Free…
Find out more »UX Gym Workshop Wellington – 2 Day Introduction to User Experience Design
Like our 1 day UX Crash Course this course gives you hands-on experience of a digital UX design project from start to finish, but it goes into more depth in each area. This course is designed to give you a more thorough understanding of the principles behind a modern user centered design process and more practical experience of some of the most common activities you will encounter in a typical user experience project. The day is designed so you can…
Find out more »UX Gym Webinar: Great ways to ruin a usability test
Free 15 min UX design seminar, Friday 15 May 2pm Visit uxgym.com on Friday 15 May 2pm for our 3rd and final free web seminar on common mistakes that invalidate usability tests. We have found that not being able to hold our usual training courses while the country is under lockdown both frustrating and boring, so while we’re waiting to get up and going again we’ve decided to share some of our favourite principles and methods that we teach…
Find out more »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 - 1.30pm 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 »But First Coffee… Auckland & Christchurch
Join us before work on Thursday 25th of June between 8am and 9am. Coffee, tea and pastries are on us! We are excited to be at level 1 in New Zealand and want to say thanks to you our DA Friends for supporting Design Assembly to do the work we do, especially over the last few months... Auckland: In partnership with Objectspace, we'd love to invite you to have a coffee and a pastry with us and have a look…
Find out more »July 2020
But First Coffee… Wellington
Join us before work on Thursday 2nd of July between 8am and 9am. Coffee, tea and pastries are on us! We are excited to be at level 1 in New Zealand and want to say thanks to you our DA Friends for supporting Design Assembly to do the work we do, especially over the last few months... In partnership with Out of Office, we'd love to invite you to have a coffee and a pastry with us. Level 3/11…
Find out more »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 2 July 12.30pm – 1.30pm 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 »August 2020
DA Online Event – Under The Hood August, 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 6 August 12.30pm – 1.30pm Online Zoom Webinar Get Tickets 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…
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 »September 2020
SOLD OUT AUCKLAND: The Value of Strategy with Raul Sarrot – 2nd September
Wednesday 2nd September 2020 9am – 12.30pm GridAKL / John Lysaght 101 Pakenham Street West, Auckland Central, Auckland 1010, New Zealand $300 +GST Professional / $200 +GST Design Assembly Friend / $50 +GST DA Student Friends (Not a DA Friend? Details on how to sign up can be found here). A practical workshop on how to translate a business vision into a game-changing, value-driven brand strategy. What is brand strategy and how does it differ from business strategy? Why strategy is critical…
Find out more »AUCKLAND: The Value of Strategy with Raul Sarrot – 9th September
In this 3-hour course, we will do a deep dive in the world of business and brand strategy, exploring how we can translate core purpose into a meaningful value-driven strategy. While we work on hands-on activities to co-create a meaningful strategic framework and an activation plan, we will answer the specific questions or challenges you might have around your business/brand.
Find out more »Free Lunchtime Webinar – The Blutui Hump Day Late Lunch
Thanks to our partner Blutui, you are invited to join us online as the Blutui team talks about why they prefer tailwinds to bootstrap and why you shouldn’t use JQuery at all or put simply how to deliver great web experiences from anywhere.
Find out more »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 »DA Online Event – IN FLUX: Aotearoa Design
We will gather as a national community in an online forum to discuss Aotearoa Design amidst Covid-19.
We’ll speak candidly about how we are doing right now, explore the opportunities for change this reset presents; from the way that we work day-to-day, as a profession, how we collaborate with our clients and peers. Through the macro visions of what we hope for our future, and how Aotearoa NZ designers can play a positive role in the world at large.
Find out more »WELLINGTON: The Value of Strategy with Raul Sarrot
Friday 25th September 2020, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm NZST Out Of Office: Level 3/11 Vivian Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand $300 +GST Professional / $200 +GST Design Assembly Friend / $50 +GST DA Student Friends (Not a DA Friend? Details on how to sign up can be found here). Get Tickets A practical workshop on how to translate a business vision into a game-changing, value-driven brand strategy. What is brand strategy and how does it differ from business strategy?…
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 »October 2020
Wellington DA Workshop: Welcome to Te Ao Māori for Designers
Prices: $400+gst Professional | $300+gst Design Assembly Friend | $100+gst Student (Not a DA Friend? Details on how to sign up can be found here) Get Tickets The creative community plays a major role in connecting people to ideas, products and services that shape who we are as a people and a nation. To reflect an authentic Aotearoa we need to naturally weave into our craft the stories, values and perspectives at the heart of Māori culture. This workshop helps those…
Find out more »Wellington DA Workshop: Designing a Culturally Authentic Aotearoa
Prices: $400+gst Professional | $300+gst Design Assembly Friend | $100+gst Student Light lunch provided. (Not a DA Friend? Details on how to sign up can be found here). Get Tickets Tēnā koutou, nau mai, haere mai! Design has a major influence in how culture, society and perceptions are shaped and defined. Globally, there is a hunger for authentic brands, experiences and connection with people and community. This has created an increased desire to authentically engage with and share Māori culture, narratives and forms of expression. This workshop is to define…
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 »Auckland DA Workshop: Designing a Culturally Authentic Aotearoa
Prices: $400+gst Professional | $300+gst Design Assembly Friend | $100+gst Student Light lunch provided. (Not a DA Friend? Details on how to sign up can be found here). Get Tickets Tēnā koutou, nau mai, haere mai! Design has a major influence in how culture, society and perceptions are shaped and defined. Globally, there is a hunger for authentic brands, experiences and connection with people and community. This has created an increased desire to authentically engage with and share Māori culture, narratives and forms of expression. This workshop is to define…
Find out more »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 »RNDR20 – Victoria University Wellington – Te Herenga Waka
Victoria’s RNDR20 opens Friday the 30th of October at 5.30 pm (until 13th November) Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro,Wellington. RNDR20 is Victoria’s flagship annual exhibition which celebrates the incredible creative work of third year and postgraduate students. Showcasing work from our future designers, architects, and makers.
Find out more »November 2020
Auckland DA Event: EOY Wrap Party
Join your fellow designers and creatives to celebrate the end of the year and the start of summer! What a year 2020 has been! So let's get together - celebrate being back in level 1, commiserate and share our experiences of this year. You'll also enjoy a digital exhibition of Mate Act Now - A protest for the digital generation, curated by Chris Flack. Hear from three local designers talk about their response to the brief: Clem Devine and Phoebe Ellis…
Find out more »Christchurch DA Event: EOY Wrap Party
Join your fellow designers and creatives to celebrate the end of the year and the start of summer! What a year 2020 has been! So let's get together - celebrate being back in level 1, commiserate and share our experiences of this year. You'll also enjoy a digital exhibition of Mate Act Now - A protest for the digital generation, curated by Chris Flack. Hear from three local designers talk about their response to the brief: Chris Flack Brett King Lara…
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…
Find out more »Adapt — Media Design School, Graduate Show 2020
Media Design School Graduate Show 2020 Date: Friday 6th November 2020 5:00pm - 9:00pm Opening Night Venue: GridAKL (Grid Auckland) The Workshop, Level 2 12 Madden Street, Wynyard Quarter, Auckland 1010 This event will showcase a diverse collection of creative work from across our Bachelor of Media Design and Graduate Diploma of Creative Technologies Programmes. Come along to celebrate and experience our students design work with us. You can also view the student work online via MDS showcase…
Find out more »Tika Tonu, AUT South
Tika Tonu is the 2020 end-of-year online exhibition featuring moving image, photography, graphic design, and illustration by AUT South's Visual Communications students, with a special focus on social-oriented projects. The exhibition launches 10.11.20 Visit: https://www.tikatonu.com/
Find out more »Springload Wellington Workshop: Identify new business opportunities with customer journey mapping
Prices: $200 Early Bird (until 10th October) | $250 General Admission Customer journey mapping is a powerful tool to help you understand how customers use and view your product or service and identify new areas for business growth. Join Kanhika and Lucy on 10th November, 1- 5 PM (NZST), and learn how to create a customer journey map by building an example journey map together. In our four-hour collaborative workshop, we will create an example customer journey map together. You…
Find out more »Wellington DA Event: EOY Wrap Party 2020
Join your fellow designers and creatives to celebrate the end of the year and the start of summer! What a year 2020 has been! So let's get together - celebrate being back in level 1, commiserate and share our experiences of this year. You'll also enjoy a digital exhibition of Mate Act Now - A protest for the digital generation, curated by Chris Flack. Hear from local designers talk about their response to the brief: Janelle Rodrigues, Creative Lead, Creature Oliver…
Find out more »DA Auckland Workshop: Welcome to Te Ao Māori for Designers
Prices: $400+gst Professional | $300+gst Design Assembly Friend | $100+gst Student (Not a DA Friend? Details on how to sign up can be found here) Get Tickets The creative community plays a major role in connecting people to ideas, products and services that shape who we are as a people and a nation. To reflect an authentic Aotearoa we need to naturally weave into our craft the stories, values and perspectives at the heart of Māori culture. This workshop helps those…
Find out more »CHRISTCHURCH: The Value of Strategy with Raul Sarrot
Wednesday 18 November 2020, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm NZST Jade Software: Level 3/11 Vivian Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand $300 +GST Professional / $200 +GST Design Assembly Friend / $50 +GST DA Student Friends (Not a DA Friend? Details on how to sign up can be found here). Buy your ticket A practical workshop on how to translate a business vision into a game-changing, value-driven brand strategy. What is brand strategy and how does it differ from business strategy?…
Find out more »DA Christchurch Workshop: Co-Design methods with Raul Sarrot
Thursday 19 November 2020, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm NZST Jade Software 5 Sir Gil Simpson Drive, Christchurch $300 +GST Professional / $200 +GST Design Assembly Friend / $50 +GST DA Student Friends (Not a DA Friend? Sign-up now from only $80 per year - www.designassembly.org.nz/friends) Buy your ticket What is the best way to deeply engage with your clients to better understand challenges and opportunities? In this workshop with Raul Sarrot from Fresh Fish, we will explore how we…
Find out more »UNITEC Graduate Show 2020
You are invited to attend the opening night of the Unitec GRAD SHOW 2020 on Thursday, 19 November from 4pm-8pm. Join us in viewing this year’s work by Unitec design and contemporary arts students. You are also welcome to view the works during our exhibition days on Friday, 20 November 9am-5pm and Saturday, 21 November 10am-4pm. School groups are welcome and entry is FREE. GRADSHOW is being held this year at Building 76 via Entry 4, Carrington Rd, @unitecnz Institute…
Find out more »Debrief 2020, Otago Polytechnic
OPENING NIGHT: Thursday 19th November, 5:30pm DEBRIEF EXHIBITION TIMES: Friday 20th November- Sunday 22nd November, 10am-4pm OTAGO POLYTECHNIC, THE HUB FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE: https://fb.me/e/622MJDH8b
Find out more »AUT Communication Design Graduate Open Studio 2020
You’re invited to explore and experience AUT Communication Design’s pop-up exhibition, showcasing the projects created by our talented graduates of 2020. AUT City Campus, WE Building, Level 5 Friday 20 November, 4–6pm @autartandesign
Find out more »Wintec School of Media Arts Graduating Exhibition
Haere mai! Come celebrate with us! Wintec's media arts classrooms and studios will be transformed into gallery spaces as design, contemporary art, and communication students exhibit their creative mahi. While you’re there, seize the opportunity to own an original artwork at Ramp Gallery’s silent auction. Opening night and auction: Thursday 26 November from 4.30pm Exhibition on display: Friday 27 November and Saturday 28 November Time: 10am – 4pm Locations: R Block, Collingwood Street: Visual communication, interior design and communication students.…
Find out more »December 2020
Yoobee Graduating Exhibition 2020
ODDINARY is Yoobee Colleges combined diploma exhibition Opening 9th December 2020 @ 5.30pm Level 4, 3 City Road Auckland
Find out more »January 2021
DA Online Event – Under The Hood January, Two Designers & Two Projects with Adobe
Thanks to our event partners Adobe, you are invited to join us online as two designers walk us through how a design project worked and an Adobe rep shares tips and tricks to improve your daily workflow. Thursday 28 January 2021 12.30pm – 1.30pm Online Zoom Webinar Get Tickets 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…
Find out more »February 2021
DA Online Event – Under The Hood February, Two Designers & Two Projects with Adobe
Thanks to our event partners Adobe, you are invited to join us online as two designers walk us through how a design project worked and an Adobe rep shares tips and tricks to improve your daily workflow. Wednesday 24 February 2021 12.30pm – 1.30pm 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…
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