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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.
March 2021
DA Online Event – Under The Hood March, Two Designers & Two Projects
Thanks to our event partners Adobe, you are invited to join us for our monthly online event where two designers walk us through how a design project worked and an Adobe rep shares tips and tricks to improve your daily workflow.
Find out more »AUCKLAND UX Gym Workshop – UX Crash Course
Get hands-on experience of a human-centred approach to UX design in this intensive one-day course. This course gives you a solid grounding in the principles and theories behind a modern, user-centred design process and practical experience taking a UX project from initial research to design to usability testing.
Find out more »April 2021
AUCKLAND DA Event: Autumn Conversations – The business of design today
Design Assembly is delighted to present our DA Autumn Conversations Series for 2021, taking place across Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch in April. One year on from the emergence of Covid-19 in Aotearoa and we have all been affected by the global pandemic in many and different ways. It's time to check with you all and ask how are you doing? How is your studio or practice going? Join your professional local community as we navigate the topic of The Business of Design…
Find out more »CHRISTCHURCH UX Gym Workshop – UX Crash Course
Get hands-on experience of a human-centred approach to UX design in this intensive one-day course. This course gives you a solid grounding in the principles and theories behind a modern, user-centred design process and practical experience taking a UX project from initial research to design to usability testing.
Find out more »AUCKLAND UX Gym Workshop: Design Research
A practical introduction to user or customer research. Learn the theory and practise the methods of modern design research as you design a research project from scratch, implement it, analyse the findings, and communicate the insights you discover. Course description User or customer research is one of the most important and in-demand areas of human-centred design. This course introduces modern methods for getting valid user or customer insights to inform design projects. During the day, you will learn the principles…
Find out more »CHRISTCHURCH DA Event: Autumn Conversations – The business of design today
Design Assembly is delighted to present our DA Autumn Conversations Series for 2021, taking place across Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch in April. One year on from the emergence of Covid-19 in Aotearoa and we have all been affected by the global pandemic in many and different ways. It's time to check with you all and ask how are you doing? How is your studio or practice going? Join your professional local community as we navigate the topic of The Business of Design…
Find out more »AUCKLAND DA Workshop: Welcome to Te Ao Maori
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) Register now 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 UX Gym Workshop: Design Research
A practical introduction to user or customer research. Learn the theory and practise the methods of modern design research as you design a research project from scratch, implement it, analyse the findings, and communicate the insights you discover. Course description User or customer research is one of the most important and in-demand areas of human-centred design. This course introduces modern methods for getting valid user or customer insights to inform design projects. During the day, you will learn the principles…
Find out more »WELLINGTON DA Event: Autumn Conversations – The Business of Design Today
Design Assembly is delighted to present our DA Autumn Conversations Series for 2021, taking place across Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch in April. One year on from the emergence of Covid-19 in Aotearoa and we have all been affected by the global pandemic in many and different ways. It's time to check with you all and ask how are you doing? How is your studio or practice going? Join your professional local community as we navigate the topic of The Business of Design…
Find out more »DA Online Event – Under The Hood April, Two Designers & Two Projects
Thanks to our event partners Adobe, you are invited to join us for our monthly online event where two designers walk us through how a design project worked and an Adobe rep shares tips and tricks to improve your daily workflow.
Find out more »May 2021
AUCKLAND UX Gym Workshop: Journey Mapping
Learn how to create journey maps that take your customer insights and assumptions and map them out in a visual storyboard for maximum engagement from stakeholders, designers, and decision makers. Course description Journey maps (sometimes called customer-journey maps or user-journey maps) are a powerful tool for understanding and communicating the experience of the people you are designing for. This course takes you through identifying when journey maps are appropriate, the process of creating them, and how to make sure your…
Find out more »WELLINGTON UX Gym Workshop: Journey Mapping
Learn how to create journey maps that take your customer insights and assumptions and map them out in a visual storyboard for maximum engagement from stakeholders, designers, and decision makers. Course description Journey maps (sometimes called customer-journey maps or user-journey maps) are a powerful tool for understanding and communicating the experience of the people you are designing for. This course takes you through identifying when journey maps are appropriate, the process of creating them, and how to make sure your…
Find out more »DA Online Event – Under The Hood May
With thanks to G.F. Smith & Paper Source, you are invited to join us for an online lunchtime conversation. Wednesday 26 May 2021 12.30pm – 1.30pm Online Zoom Webinar Register now With thanks to G.F. Smith and Paper Source, you are invited to grab your lunch and join us for an online conversation This month's event is a little different; with Peter Radich sharing a paper-based design project; then Jutta from G.F. Smith will share the latest on colour trends,…
Find out more »June 2021
AUCKLAND UX Gym Workshop: Information Architecture
Learn one of UX design’s most fundamental skill sets: how to organise the information in a digital product or service so that it makes sense to real people. This course takes you through a human-centred design approach to making digital content findable and understandable. Course description Learning how to organise, describe, and present the information in your website or app is one of the fundamental skills that make up UX design. Information architecture (IA) is the glue that holds complex…
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…
Find out more »WELLINGTON DA Workshop: No signal found – creating great campaigns without TV
Prices: $300+gst Professional | $200+gst Design Assembly Friend | $50+gst Student (Not a DA Friend? Details on how to sign up can be found here). Register Now In this workshop we’ll explore how to create an effective campaign without having to rely on TV. It will be hands-on and high-energy. We’ll show you a few examples but don’t expect this to be a workshop where it’s all screen and no play. We’ll co-create a campaign framework, run through how to…
Find out more »July 2021
WELLINGTON DA Workshop: 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) Register now 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 »AKL: DA Annual Pub Quiz 2021
The DA Annual Pub Quiz is back for 2021! Book a table Join us for an evening of graphic design, arts and culture trivia — you know you want this year’s bragging rights! Pit your studio against the rest, or if you’re working independently, gather together a team of your design colleagues. Show your creative peers just how much you know, and enjoy an evening amongst the biggest design nerds in Auckland. Your ticket includes basic nibbles and first drink, if…
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). Register Now 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 »AUCKLAND UX Gym Workshop: User Interface (UI) Design
Learn how to design a user interface (UI) by learning how people understand and make decisions when using screen-based interfaces, and how to respond to this when making your own design decisions. In this course you put everything you learn into practice by creating your own interface design in professional design software. Course description This practical course focuses on design for screens, from application user interfaces to web design. We cover common behaviour patterns when people are trying to understand…
Find out more »WELLINGTON UX Gym Workshop: User Interface (UI) Design
Learn how to design a user interface (UI) by learning how people understand and make decisions when using screen-based interfaces, and how to respond to this when making your own design decisions. In this course you put everything you learn into practice by creating your own interface design in professional design software. Course description This practical course focuses on design for screens, from application user interfaces to web design. We cover common behaviour patterns when people are trying to understand…
Find out more »August 2021
CHRISTCHURCH DA Annual Pub Quiz 2021
The DA Annual Pub Quiz is back for 2021! Join us for an evening of graphic design, arts and culture trivia — you know you want this year’s bragging rights! Pit your studio against the rest, or if you’re working independently, we can pop you in a team or you can gather together a team of your design colleagues. Show your creative peers just how much you know, and enjoy an evening amongst the biggest design nerds in Christchurch. Your…
Find out more »AUCKLAND UX Gym Workshop: Usability Testing and Prototyping
Learn how to run usability testing on existing digital products and services and create clickable prototypes for concepts still in the design stage. This practical course gives you everything you need to make sure the design, implementation and analysis of your tests gives you reliable and usable insights. Course description 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…
Find out more »WEBINAR: Stronger, Better, Happier Studio Program Walk Through
Join Louise Kellerman from Design Assembly and Andy Wright from Streamtime as they walk you through what to expect from their Stronger Better Happier Studio Program. Louise and Andy will give you an overview of the course and take you through some of the content in module one and two so you'll be able to get a good idea of whether this course is right for you. var humanitix = { findPos: function(obj) { var curtop = 0; if (obj.offsetParent)…
Find out more »WELLINGTON UX Gym Workshop: Information Architecture
Learn one of UX design’s most fundamental skill sets: how to organise the information in a digital product or service so that it makes sense to real people. This course takes you through a human-centred design approach to making digital content findable and understandable. Course description Learning how to organise, describe, and present the information in your website or app is one of the fundamental skills that make up UX design. Information architecture (IA) is the glue that holds complex…
Find out more »CHRISTCHURCH DA Workshop: Writing for Designers with Mark Easterbrook
Even purely visual design work is surrounded by language. We use words to inform, explain and persuade our audiences before, during and after a design project. This workshop will step above the nuts and bolts of grammar and spelling and look at what makes good writing good, so workshop attendees can develop their confidence with the written word.
Find out more »DA Online Event – Under The Hood August, Two Designers & Two Projects
Thanks to our event partners Adobe, you are invited to join us for our monthly online event where two designers walk us through how a design project worked and an Adobe rep shares tips and tricks to improve your daily workflow.
Find out more »September 2021
NOW ONLINE – DA Webinar: Design Thinking Reloaded with Raul Sarrot
Design Thinking Reloaded: A fresh look at empathy-based techniques to better understand your audience and to co-create game-changing solutions.
In this webinar with Raul Sarrot, we will take a look into how to better understand and utilise Design Thinking –together with other co-creation techniques– to work alongside your clients in deeply understanding people's problems and to come up with meaningful, innovative solutions.
Find out more »NOW ONLINE – DA Webinar: Intro to Digital Accessibility – embedding accessibility in your design process
Get Tickets Ensuring your designs are accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities and access needs may feel a little daunting. But paying attention to accessibility is well worth it in the end when you know that it makes your design work better and more useful to everyone. In this session we will introduce digital accessibility and give you five things to specifically consider when you are designing for people with access needs. We will also provide notes about the…
Find out more »DA Online Event – Under The Hood September, Two Designers & Two Projects
Under the Hood is a live event from 12.30pm – 1.30pm. Grab your sandwich, tea, coffee or kombucha and pull up a chair with your studio friends or in your WFH office. Join us on zoom for a candid walk-through of two designers process on two projects, featuring designers to be announced.
Find out more »October 2021
CANCELLED – CHRISTCHURCH DA Workshop: The Value of Strategy with Raul Sarrot
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 »CANCELLED – CHRISTCHURCH DA Workshop: Design Thinking Reloaded with Raul Sarrot
What is the best way to deeply engage with your clients to better understand challenges and opportunities? In this workshop we will explore how we could complement Design Thinking with other co-creation techniques to work alongside your client and deeply understand problems and to come up with game-changing solutions.
Find out more »Lunch with Blutui
Come and join our partner Blutui for lunch, they deliver the ultimate agency weapon in the battle for better websites. You are invited to join us online as the Blutui team run you through their platform and how Blutui puts your agency in control of web projects. It’s Wednesday so we thought we’d give you some mid-week inspiration, so warm up last night’s leftovers or grab a cuppa and a biscuit and get your creative juices flowing with this webinar from…
Find out more »November 2021
DA Online Event – Under The Hood November, Two Designers & Two Projects
Under the Hood is a live event from 12.30pm – 1.30pm. Grab your sandwich, tea, coffee or kombucha and pull up a chair with your studio friends or in your WFH office. Join us on zoom for a candid walk-through of two designers process on two projects, featuring designers to be announced.
Find out more »2021 EOY DA Online Quiz
After the end to the year that we’ve all been through, let's get together as a community online and have some fun! Pulling from the DA Quiz questions since 2012, we’ll see once and for all who the biggest design nerds in our country are. Test yourself against your team or the rest of the Aotearoa NZ design community and we'll see if you’ve been paying attention. Hosted by the ever enigmatic Eddy Dever, we’ll fire questions at you through…
Find out more »NOW ONLINE DA Webinar: Writing for Designers with Mark Easterbrook
Even purely visual design work is surrounded by language. We use words to inform, explain and persuade our audiences before, during and after a design project. This workshop will step above the nuts and bolts of grammar and spelling and look at what makes good writing good, so workshop attendees can develop their confidence with the written word.
Find out more »Streamtime’s Sunnier Summer
Get a head start on the future. Do the groundwork for a happier, healthier, creative business in 2022. Save your virtual seat here for the 23 November - 9am - 1pm AEDT / 11am – 3pm NZDT Good times aren’t just for when you clock off! Hold onto your akubras, this is not your normal conference. Join us in the virtual sun as we teleport experts directly into your homes, offices and home offices. Scribble notes frantically as they share…
Find out more »2021 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 2021 has been! So let’s get together - celebrate the wins, commiserate over the struggles and share our experiences of this year.
Hear from some local designers about their design and art hobbies, passion projects or side hustles - designers TBC
Find out more »December 2021
2021 Wellington 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 2021 has been! So let’s get together - celebrate the wins, commiserate over the struggles and share our experiences of this year. Hear from some local designers about their design and art hobbies, passion projects or side hustles - designers TBC This year’s speakers include: Ryan Shields Janelle Rodrigues Prices: DA Friends get FREE tickets (Including DA Schools students, studio and…
Find out more »WELLINGTON UX Gym Workshop: Usability Testing and Prototyping
Fri 31st Dec 2021, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm NZDT
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