Sustainable Design Presentation to Business and UX Practitioners

The Talk

"Sustainability starts with you & finishes with your customers"

Your users or consumers interact with your products and services over their whole life cycle. Their experiences related to those products and services have a profound impact on the future sustainability and success of your company. Learn how customer experience and life cycle thinking come together to create better products and services for your company and the environment.

The Speaker
Locus Research is a vertically integrated design studio and leader in sustainable product development. A finalist in the Unlimited Sustainble 60, the company  has also worked with the Ministry for Environment on Life Cycle Analysis, delivered the 2008 Life Cycle Thinking workshop series. The company also plays an active role in the Sustainable Design Group New Zealand.

Timothy Allan brings more than a decade of sustainable product development in the commercial domain to the team, along with a proven ability to lead technology oriented product development projects and diversified design teams. Timothy brings a singular focus to his concept of life cycle thinking and its integration with commercial product development across a wide range of sectors. 

Theme: Sustainable Design

Date & Time: Thursday 12th November, 6.00 - 8.00pm
Venue: The Westin Hotel, 21 Viaduct Harbor Avenue. ‘The Private Room’  - look for sign on the night. (The Westin Auckland Lighter Quay has just been awarded the prestigious Qualmark Enviro Gold Award, New Zealand's highest level of achievement in relation to conservation and sustainable practices in tourism.)
Cost: Free – Fully sponsored by Optimal Usability 

Please note this event is invite only. You can contact the organiser to be included in any future UPA Auckland events.

What is World Usability Day?
World Usability Day was an initiative launched in 2005 by the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) and it’s all about making life easier.

Each year, on the second Thursday of November, over 225 events are organized in over 40 countries around the world to raise awareness for the general public, and train professionals in the tools and issues central to good usability research, development and practice.

 This year, the theme is Designing for a Sustainable World. We are trying to raise awareness for this, so if you would like to work out your carbon footprint and offset it, we thoroughly recommend that you check out www.offsettherest.com. This is a New Zealand company that works to keep our country clean, green and beautiful. 

Optimal Usability will be donating to this organization: http://www.treesfortravellers.co.nz/ to offset the environmental cost of this year’s event.