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Julia Birks

Lead Experience Designer, Isobar

With 11 years’ industry experience spanning industrial, print, digital and service design, Julia is passionate about anchoring an organisation's strategy around great customer experiences.

Julia has delivered a stack of UX and service design projects, ranging from expert reviews, website redesigns, digital strategy, and service mapping and design. She has worked with a variety of industries, including state and federal government, finance, telecoms, education and health.

Her post-graduate diploma thesis was the design of a below-the-knee prosthesis for high-performance surfing. She is passionate about mentoring young designers through the early stages of their careers. She sits on the committee for the Service Design Network in Melbourne, Australia, and runs a women’s gridiron team in Footscray.

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Lean UX Fundamentals: One Day Workshop

Lean UX Fundamentals: One Day Workshop

In this full-day workshop, experts in user experience principles and design will provide students with meaningful lessons in the art and science of building great user experiences.

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Introduction to User-Centred Design and Usability

Introduction to User-Centred Design and Usability

Create simple & usable digital products your users will love. Learn how to put User-Centred Design into practice, and the basics of Information Architecture, UI Design & Usability.

Understanding Mobile UX

Understanding Mobile UX

Learn the types of prototypes, tools, and best practices for mobile.

Design Thinking Bootcamp: A Two-Part Series

Design Thinking Bootcamp: A Two-Part Series

This practical workshop series will lead you through the design thinking process, taught by a design thinking professional that lives and breathes in this space.

The Future of Pure Experience: Designing for the Neo User

The Future of Pure Experience: Designing for the Neo User

Create simple & usable digital products your users will love. Learn how to put User-Centred Design into practice, and the basics of Information Architecture, UI Design & Usability.

Tech & Digital Jobs of the Future Panel: Future-proof Your Career

Tech & Digital Jobs of the Future Panel: Future-proof Your Career

What jobs will exist in 2020? Come along and hear from a panel of industry leaders on how to stay relevant in the rapidly changing tech space for 2016 and beyond...

'Fat Free' User Experience Design Research

'Fat Free' User Experience Design Research

In a world of start-ups, Agile and Lean, we are under increasing pressure to deliver faster. We’ll show you how to strip customer research & analysis back to the bare essentials.

Introduction to Lean UX Methods

Introduction to Lean UX Methods

In this session, we'll cover various lean user experience methods and show how to apply these principles to your projects.

Digital CV's & Salaries - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

Digital CV's & Salaries - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

Some of the Melbourne’s most talented digital #LeadingLadies share their journey of career success, their obstacles along the way, how they overcame them & advice they can give.

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