Thread by @RohanIrvine

Kicking off UX Australia with Uncle Ray Davidson welcoming us to country.

Uncle Ray is reminding us we have one mother, mother earth and she loves us. If you're born on country then you belong to country and you are part of country.

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.@docbaty: Almost 10 years to the day the first UX Australia was held. Over that 10 years the nature of the work we do had changed. In the first year it was focussed almost exclusively on web. No mobiles, tablets, services, the way tech integrates into the world around us.

When Steve sits in the audience he's amazed at how these tools and methods are applied today.

He hopes you can find wonderful connections that you can take back to your practice and further develop our industry.

Steve shared a story about a close friend and community member who lost their life to suicide and is encouraging us to ask people how they are and give them space to answer honestly.

We will be talking about some of the challenges that we will need to overcome in the next 10 years.

We are going to touch on 4 major ones.

Who owns our technology, our data.

The role of algorithms in our technology

How we design for inclusion and disability

How we design for transitions, ends and off boarding.

We need to ask ourselves some big questions and challenge how we have been trending over the last years.

We have some real issues that we as a community can play an important role in addressing through our day to day work and what we choose to work on.

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