Yunmie Kim 🏝

Highlighting my article on some of the Lessons I've learnt from working in Product Design across a variety of industries. https://lnkd.in/gSxD6nCe #design #designthinking #designbuild #designstrategy #product #producctdesign #productmanagement #productstrategy #designprinciples #innovation #designers #digitaltransformation #ux #uxdesign #uiux #uidesign #designinnovation #application #software #softwaredesign #usability #userresearch #research #usercentereddesign #productleadership #uxwriting #designsystems #empathy #interfacedesign #usabilitytesting #userexperience #productdesign #accessibility #ui

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Another great Macquarie Design Blog post by Leah Ochroch went live this morning. Insightful, practical tips to ensure your design is accessible for all. #design #experiencedesign #uxdesign #accessibility

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I was interviewed for Good Design Australia’s series on the Value of Design… “Ultimately, strategic design integration leads to high-quality, cost-effective products, reduces waste, enhances pricing potential, and fosters stronger customer loyalty and advocacy. This approach underscores the tangible benefits of design for businesses and economic prosperity in Australia,” https://lnkd.in/gBuEptbm

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Our first ever Sydney Design Thinking meetup was on 11 June 2015. On Thursday, 13 June we'll be celebrating our 9th birthday... and 100th meetup! Maybe we'll even be celebrating the milestone of 10,000 SydDT members? Right now we're at 9,303... can we welcome 700 new members in just under two months?! For some fun - and as an incentive to join SydDT (for free) - everyone who joins between now and 12 June will go into the draw to win a copy of my book Solve Problems That Matter. I'll put all names into a randomiser and draw the winner at our meetup on 13 June... and you don't need to be in the room to win - we can only fit ~80 😄 Kate Linton has been organising our 100th meetup and the topic is Delivering Inclusive Experiences in Public Services. More details coming soon. For now, make sure you join our Meetup page by going to https://bit.ly/syddt and hit "Join this group"... and you're automatically in the game! 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗦𝘆𝗱𝗗𝗧? Sydney Design Thinking (SydDT) is a diverse community of 9,000 members. We've been meeting monthly since 2015 to explore the world of design thinking as a human-centred design approach to innovation and solving complex problems - to help create positive outcomes for people, our planet, and business. We're one of the top design thinking meetups globally. You can watch some of our meetups here https://lnkd.in/gfKbV4mw     #SydDT #designthinking #design #hcd #innovation #wellbeing #regen #product #tech #digital #strategy #strategicdesign #leadership #learning #impact #purpose #community #sydney #meetup #SPTMbook c/ Kate Linton, Kylie Mageropoulos, Lucas Mara, Zoe (Rosen) Gibson, Kingsley J., James Cooper

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Design as a strategic capability What does it mean to use Design as a strategic capability? This is a question I've been chipping away at for the better part of nine months in my role at the Australian Design Council. On the one hand, there's an implied question here about what we mean by a Design capability, with hints of what 'good' looks like thrown into the mix. And on the other, what would make that capability a strategic one within the organisation. Typically, we think of a strategic capability as one that helps an organisation deliver on its ambitions. That applies equally to private enterprises, government entities, and not-for-profit organisations. It's a capability that helps do something that would otherwise not be possible, and would leave the organisation short of achieving its goals. For Design to sit in that category, it typically means some combination of the following is occurring: - design methods and processes are utilised at a high level of quality - the outputs of those methods and processes are themselves of a high quality - the areas within the organisation's overall decision-making apparatus in which design can be found are sweeping. Obviously, the phrase 'high quality' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this description, and it's something we've spent a lot of time grappling with. Where we've landed (currently) is somewhere that feels like a description of contemporary design practice that brings with it the traditional elements of craft, aesthetic, and function; and embeds them within ideas of circularity, de-colonisation, and co-design. In practice that means Design within the organisation is an integrated part of decision-making from the executive to the shop floor, retail store and contact centre. There is a free flowing cycle of information from product/service design through distribution/sales, to customers/users, driving insight and innovation. And there's an awareness of, and explicit designing for a circular economy and long-term preservation of material value in the system. It means the things being put out into the world have been shaped by the people who will use them, particularly in the services realm, but also more broadly in the built environment and physical objects. And it means a focus on value creation rather than rent-seeking or value extraction. Of the 2.6m-odd businesses in Australia, we know that Design is an under-utilised capability. It's clear from the drop-off in the innovation pipeline that occurs as R&D efforts run into actual customers; and in the many businesses stalled in the almost-medium-sized enterprise space. There is so much additional value that can be created through this application of Design. We just need to keep pushing for it. #strategicdesign #designcapability #design

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🥁 Not ONE, but TWO design accelerator courses (by yours truly) are happening in the next two months: 🤩 (📍SYD)First-ever In person bootcamp for the topic: Mastering Business Acumen in Design Half-day business acumen bootcamp to build business confidence, and learn to connect design ideas to business outcomes. First in. Best dressed. 20 student limit per class. Date: 21st JUNE Fri 10.30-3pm https://lnkd.in/gfGhBA_x 🚀 If you’re after an intensive end to end Product Career Boost. From 1st July, My Maven Product Design Accelerator Course will kick start. This 4 weeks course is totally transformational.(Already has some awesome designers in the cohort.) Outcome 👇🏼 ⭐️Develop business acumen and become a savvy strategic designer ⭐️Influence design in the business by facilitation and lead ⭐️Measure your impact and plan your career ⭐️Effective storytelling skills to gain buy-in. ⏳20 students limit per class. Access to unlimited 1-1 support Only join if you are ready to commit and spend some time for weekly assignments. p.s. This cohort may be the last of this type. 🥹 Register links for both are in the comment👇🏼 PM to book a call with me if you’re unsure. #productdesign #designcareer #businessdesign #uxdesign

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