WELCOME! I AM libby A HUMAN CENTRED DESIGN PRACTITIONER AND TEACHER. NOTHING ABOUT THEM WITHOUT THEM

I have been spanning the breadth of design for over 2o years as web designer, user experience designer, strategic designer, service designer and human centred designer… or basically I am the human that likes to understand and design with humans.

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Could a card deck help us tell compelling stories?

This was a question I was trying to answer in my Master of Design Futures research project that I completed in June 2021 at RMIT.

The card deck was developed for design researchers and teams to help them plan and tell compelling stories from their research. I think it would be perfect for team retrospectives or reflection.

 

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A storytelling card deck

A storytelling card deck

And The What Happened? A card deck for design researchers, design teams or for business At the end of 2018 I embarked on a Master of Design Futures at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). I remember at the time feeling restless about my role and my future...

Surface pattern courses :: the good and the better

Surface pattern courses :: the good and the better

For those that know me well, they know I am somewhat obsessed with creating repeating patterns. There is nothing like the feeling you get when that first design actually repeats as you intended. That achievement drives you forward to more variety and complexity in...

A new pattern collection :: chisai

A new pattern collection :: chisai

This is my latest pattern collection called Chisai, which means small in Japanese. It started as a challenge I set for myself to create an entire collection of small prints and a thought of wouldn't it be cool to make a quilt completely out of fabrics designed by me....

“Until you hear a story and you can understand that experience, you don’t know what you are talking about. There has to be a person’s story that you hear, where finally you get a picture in your head of what it would be like to be that person. Until that moment, you know nothing, and you deal with the information you are given in a flawed way.”

—Ira Glass, This American Life