Anthony Quinn – ‘Dealing with career challenges, and increasing your influence as a designer in your organisation’

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We caught up with Anthony Quinn recently. For anyone who has seen Anthony speak at design, conferences will know what a strong design thinker he is. We chat about how he got into design, his motivations and also took questions relating to the topics of career challenges from people working in the industry, and also how to increase your influence in an organisation.

Attendees

Vera Chan, Senior User Experience designer at Symplicit

She has worked with a variety of clients such as NBNco, Telstra, Transport for NSW, Westpac and most recently with NAB. She’s a local leader of IxDA Sydney. She is the co-organiser of the Mentoring program at IxDA Sydney, which provides a platform for new designers to be mentored by someone more experience.

Dharawan Noller, Service Design at Westpac

She believes human centred design, storytelling and visual thinking are powerful ways to improve the lives of everyday people. Her background is in customer experience research, various visual support for strategy projects, with roots in Industrial Design and Architecture.

Kevin Chan, UX Designer

Peter Nesic, Product Manager

Links mentioned in the podcast

• Jetpack For Changemakers is a free, 2-hour workshop for people who want to build a strong for-purpose business Jetpack.Dynamic4.Com
• Power by Jeffrey Pfeffer
• Management BS, also by Jeffrey Pfeffer
• Secrets of Power Negotiating, by Roger Dawson (Full of very useful tactics)
• Cara Care.org.au