Alastair Simpson

Alastair has 10 years of experience in user experience design at large growth focussed businesses. Alastair is currently Head of Design for Confluence, one of Atlassian's largest products. He is a passionate advocate of using lean customer centric design and design thinking methodologies to solve complex business problems. He has helped many teams see its benefits and transition to leaner approaches to product development. 

Previously Alastair worked at global publishers Reed Business Information as well as a digital consultancy firm consulting to Qantas, FOXTEL and Telstra. His areas of expertise include design thinking, lean customer centric design, and program management. You can find Alastair on Twitter at @alanstairs.

Presenting at Managing Design 2016:
From 6 to 106 in 4 years