Joshua Crowley

UX Designer

Based in Sydney, Australia.

What makes a Design System play well?

With apologies to Geoff McFetridge, I take you on an illustrated journey of what it's like to be onboarded to a strange new a design system. How ultimately, I felt shared ownership and made some friends along the way.

I presented this talk to Design System Meetup in Sydney.

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Contributing as an interactive designer at the Department of Agriculture, our team built a system for consolidating trade quota, consolidating existing projects.

This case study focuses on my design process for a single component in our app. I talk you through it's initial concept, expansion and then refinement, all the way through to PROD.

MathsBURST

Working remotely with a team of educators I designed and developed an educational web platform for teachers and students, used in classrooms across Australia.

My case study details the challenges using technology in the classroom and how I was able to balance design and development in this hybrid role.

Bundle

Working with a talented team at CHOICE, I helped develop and design a minimum viable product to evaluate a market opportunity.

In my case study I reflect on our user research, collaboration with product experts, rapid prototyping with Framer.js and our successful MVP.

ABC Active Memory

ABC Active Memory was an innovative research program and brain training product delivered as a Software as a service web app.

In my case study I reflect on my contribution as a UX designer, helping to shape brain games and an polished product.

Oma

Oma was a meal planner app I designed and developed with my mate as hobby to expand my web development skills.

In my case study I reflect on some fun features I implemented and why dog fooding is so important in product development.

Wriveted

Wriveted finds books that match a child’s interests, increasing their desire to read and improving literacy. As a developer, I helped support the Wriveted team build their 1st MVP.

My case study reflects on the opportunity for low code prototypes to enable a lean approach and playing with hardware to deliver a memorable user experience.

Life, Love & Death

I have a background in print design, it's where I first fell in love with product design. I still scratch that itch by making zines from time to time. One of my latest series of zine were constituted of 3 booklets that contained my small observations about Life, Love and Death. A tiny run of 200, printed by me on 100% Cotton paper with a Heidelberg Platen Letterpress Printer.

Contact

Feel free to contact me via any of these services:

Email | Github | Twitter

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