Erietta Sapounakis

UX • Product • Leadership

Notes on design, product, and reports from industry meet-ups

  • Product Tank: Fireside chat with Marty Cagan and Malte Feller and the rise of the product creator

    I joined a meet-up hosted at the Atlassian office yesterday which brought together over 200 people from the 5,000-member Product Tank community. The event was a panel discussion between Malte Feller and product luminary Marty Cagan. They discussed the changing landscape of product creation, team topologies, leadership, and the impact of AI. Cagan described three…

  • Designing the future with AI – a design leaders panel

    This week I braved the rain after work to attend an Attlasian Design event on design and AI with Katie Dill (Head of Design, Stripe), Peter Lofgren (Head of Design, Qantas), and Charlie Sutton (Head of Design, Atlassian). The fireside chat shared questions and approaches on what the rapid paced innovation of AI means to…

  • AI Research – Supercharging your search, not replacing your brain

    At the top of this post is an image of the State Library of NSW. Because strangely, using Google Gemini’s Deep Research mode reminded me of researching there in years past. When I was a kid I would go to the State’s Mitchell library, start my research, get out a book, read a section, go…

  • Figma webinar: Rebuilding a design system

    CommBank’s Design System Journey  The presenter: Gordana Gorgiojski, Senior Product Owner for the Design System at CBA The talk: Figma webinar on CBA’s journey to create a robust and scalable design system using Figma and design tokens.  The team: Gordana, who began at CBA as a UI designer and later a chapter lead, now leads…

  • Reflections on accessibility from the Friends of Figma Sydney A11Y Awareness Day

    The Sydney Friends of Figma community hosted a special event to celebrate the upcoming A11Y Awareness Day at Atlassian. Featured speakers were Director and Founder of Intopia Sarah Pulis, and Katherine McDermott and Jamal Abdulrahim from See Me Please. “Beyond WCAG: Elevating Your Equitable Design Maturity” Sarah Pulis urged organisations to move beyond compliance with…

  • AI is Pablo Stanley’s creative partner

    Pablo Stanley Marquez is a designer, illustrator, cartoonist, musician, serial co-founder (Blush, Lummi), Design Advisory Board member at Canva and a whirlwind of creative energy. His talk at the March 6 Friends of Figma meet-up was in two parts – The UX of AI, followed by demos. The UX of AI Pablo outlined a set…

  • Fostering a Continuous Discovery Culture

    Yesterday Askable hosted a webinar panel discussion on the topic of continuous discovery. On the panel were Nate Cutcliffe – Enterprise Customer Success, Askable; Emily Barnes – Senior Research Consultant, Askable Plus; and Katharina Rochjadi – Digital Customer Experience Research Manager, Bupa. The research approach “Continuous Discovery” was coined by Teresa Torres in her book…

  • Insights from Service NSW: Running effective content critiques with Liz Leigh

    At tonight’s Sydney Content Strategy meetup, Liz Leigh, from Service NSW, shared her insights and practices on building the Content Strategy discipline, and how and why to incorporate content critique sessions. Crafting a Vision for Content Design Liz Leigh has defined a vision for content design at Service NSW. Informed by internal research, this vision…

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