Babblings

This personal blog is a portal through which I do my best deep soul snorkeling, about design to relationships, to life.

International Women’s Day 2023

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March 10, 2023
I attended a “Women in Leadership” panel at the Powerhouse Museum sponsored by Chief Executive Women for International Women’s Day (IWD) this past week. The panel featured Kathryn Fink, Allegra Spender MP, Jillian Broadbent …

UX Australia 2022

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September 9, 2022
Tried my hand at sketchnoting after over a year at UX Australia this year!  The secondary shading color didn't quite come through due to scanning and cleaning up but it was great to document the conference!

UXDX 2021

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August 30, 2022
I've been quite terrible at documenting but in an effort to archive all sketchnotes for conference, I'm starting with the UXDX APAC conference from March 2021. I've found sketchnoting to be an active listening …

Reflections of 2021: Duality

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January 1, 2022
Writing this feels like talking first thing in the morning to someone before having rehearsed your voice - it feels coarse but you know you'll get the hang of it. 2021. A repeat of …

Data-driven design decisions VS design-driven data decisions: Part 1

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August 16, 2021
Despite having worked in industries cutting across voice design, mobility, industrial spaces, and aviation, one constant has been working with data. Either consciously or not, I've always had to figure out how to work …

Craft vs Hype

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July 1, 2021
When we were younger, we all followed certain "fads"*. As a kid of the 90s I remember the switch from Pokemon to Digimon (and I know some never made that leap), from Digipets to …

30 lessons for 30

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June 29, 2021
This is a compilation of different blog posts I’ve written over the years, reflecting on lessons learned. This was inspired by a spread in Elle magazine when Taylor Swift turned 30 a couple years …

Reflections of 2020: Being

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January 24, 2021
What a year. While 2012 was predicted to be the year that changed everything, I think they might have reversed the second two numbers. It was a strange year for everyone - from COVID …

An Aussie Year

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September 27, 2020
Remarkably, I hit the one-year mark in Australia earlier this month. It's been a crazy year - nothing anyone would have imagined - but still flew by. Throughout the year, I kept documenting small …

“Where are you from?”

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September 19, 2020
"No, really, where are you from?" (In Australia this has become "what is your background?") The number of times I've been asked this question is definitely more than the number of times i've been …

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