Tomorrow night Design Thinking Drinks will be held in Sydney from 5.30pm at The Altitude Bar, Shelbourne Hotel 200 Sussex Street Sydney. Customer experience company Different will be speaking at the event about ‘Essentials of Customer Centric Business.’
The Shelbourne Hotel in Sydney from Wikipedia
I’m only getting to know Design Thinking Drinks after being away from Sydney since 2007. I have however learnt from host Deborah Kneeshaw that Design Thinking Drinks has been taking place for 2 years now and the community of interest has steadily grown. I just did a quick online search for reports and write-ups on previous events. Here’s what I found (if you’ve been to previous Drinks nights please excuse missing dates as I can’t seem to find them online):
Design Thinking Drinks, July 2010
This drinks event was hosted by BT Financial Group but I don’t think anyone captured the event.
Design Thinking Drinks, December 2010
December Drinks by Design Thinkers Sydney
A short note by Diana Adorno to commemorate the one year anniversary of Design Thinking Drinks in December 2010.
Design Thinking Drinks, February 2011
Service Design in Sydney, a healthy community of practice by Kimberley Crofts
Kimberley Crofts of Meld Studios provides insight into February event hosted by Digital Eskimo. The night’s speaker was Penny Hagen, formerly of Digital Eskimo and PhD Candidate (at the time). Penny spoke about participatory design in social technologies which was followed by a discussion. Kimberley captured the key points of the discussion here.
Design Thinking Drinks at Digital Eskimo by Digital Eskimo
Hosts for the night Digital Eskimo also blogged the event reporting that the “Igloo was buzzing with design thinkers discovering their inner child and outer greenie.” Digital Eskimo also posted pictures of the event. Check it all out here.
Sketchnotes – Design Thinking Drinks 2011 by Ben Crothers
Rather than use words, designer Ben Crothers shares his sketches from Penny’s talk via the Behance Network here and on flicker here.
Design Thinking by Mal booth
Mal takes us on a photographic journey before and during the Design Thinking Drinks event on his FromMelbin blog here.
Design Thinking Drinks, April 2011
The April event was my first time at Design Thinking Drinks which took place at the Art House Hotel. I remember feeling pretty new being back in Sydney, so it was great to see loads of familiar faces on the night.
Having done some online sleuthing it seems I missed a really great Drinks night in February 2011. I was probably getting over jet lag then. From the snippets of insight Design Thinking Drinks have hosted some great events. I’ll certainly look forward to future events such as tomorrow night’s Design Thinking Drinks. Remember to RSVP!
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Design thinking which is innovating via a structured analysis of specific challenges in a particular process or industry, is all about creating outcomes that serve one’s business, customers and wider market in highest and best use fashion