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We are thrilled to say that this is the largest number of sponsors we’ve had on board for any of our events ever!

Thank you to all twenty-one sponsors who are joining us, offering exclusive swag and virtual sessions to UXA2021 attendees!

Take a look at the event schedule to see what our sponsors have in store for attendees, and if you’d like to join in, tickets are still on sale up until 8:30 am, Tuesday, August 24!

 

UX Australia yearly sponsors

This year Amplitude, Aquent and Askable signed on for the entire year. We’re so grateful for their support and sticking around for the fun!

Joining us from the US, Amplitude helps organisations deeply understand their digital customer behavior, predict the actions that correlate to business outcomes, and quickly adapt the customer experience to maximise revenue. Amplitude are offering UXA2021 attendees exclusive access to Amplitude and hosting a virtual session Bridging the Business/Experience Divide with the North Star Framework. 

Aquent are our yearly recruitment partners. Aquent is all about supporting the HCD community that they work with, partnering closely with both candidates and clients. Aquent are offering UXA2021 attendees a free download to Aquent’s How To Get Started With Digital Accessibility and are running a webinar focused on Why Accessibility and Inclusive Design Matters. 

Askable has an offer for all UXA2021 attendees that is so exciting we can’t let you know what it is just yet! Askable empowers you to run usability tests without the hassle of recruiting, scheduling and following up with participants. Askable believes the UX research workforce will become an on-demand network of hundreds of researchers that any company can use to get research done.  

UXA2021 event sponsors

These sponsors are joining us exclusively for the online UX Australia 2021 conference.

Aplo is a user experience design and research consultancy. They are on a mission to remove friction in everyday interaction with technology by fixating on users – the humans technology is created for. 

Blueegg is an experience design UX agency based in Sydney. They focus on four key areas- Research, Design, Test and Build. Blueegg are running a workshop for juniors designers and you can join in! Blueegg are also offering UXA2021 attendees an Adobe XD Design kit!

Bourne Digital is a design-led digital agency for the enterprise. They seek to simplify and improve business by applying human-centred design to place the user at the centre of business. Bourne Digital are running a webinar ‘Enabling Organisations to Adopt Design Thinking’ on Thursday afternoon!

Cozy Juicy Real are joining us for the first time to host a virtual games night for UXA2021 attendees. Cozy Juicy Real are all about helping mission-driven leaders shape their company’s culture, by creating a stronger bond between their teams.

Exo Digital is back again, a design-led innovation consultancy providing unique solutions that change the way conventional businesses and teams operate. Exo Digital is hosting an online session ‘Barking dogs, crying babies and delivery men... Innovation during a crisis’. 

At Entropik Tech, their mission is to humanize experiences. Entropik Tech has built AI technologies that understand human emotion through Facial Expressions, Eye Movement, Voice Tonality and Brainwaves and are hosting 'Humanizing UX: User Research with Eye Tracking and Facial Coding' on Wednesday afternoon. 

Welcome back to Folk who are with us again this year! They are a strategic design consultancy based in Sydney. Folk are offering UXA2021 attendees their famous notebooks so many have come to love at previous events. 

IxDA Sydney is all about fostering community engagement in improving the human condition by advancing the discipline of Interaction Design and are offering Portfolio Reviews to UXA2021 attendees on Tuesday night.  

JMC Academy is Australia’s leading creative industries higher education institution and are passionate about empowering creatives with the skills and knowledge that they need to succeed in creative careers.

PwC, Experience Consulting, is all about building trust in society and solving important problems, accelerating big ideas and making experiences real. 

Sh8peshifters have joined us to design our conference booklet and livescribe opening keynote Steve Baty’s presentation. Sh8peshifters are visual storytellers who use creativity, visual thinking and stories to bring people together and breathe life into ideas.

QTBIPOC Design provides free and accessible design education to LGBTQ+ designers of colour. QTBIPOC Design is run by our Wednesday keynote Steven Wakabayashi who is also hosting Creating Safe & Inclusive Spaces within Design on Thursday afternoon. 

Sketch Group is on board again to sketch the conference keynotes. They believe that sketching is an untapped superpower—that it can unlock something extraordinary in people, in teams, and in organisations. Sketch Group is hosting two virtual sessions- Sip n Sketch and Sketching Goals - for UXA2021 attendees!

Telstra Purple are helping their customers realise their purpose through people and technology. Telstra Purple are growing their UX design team across Australia to help support the growing demand for high-quality design outcomes that are supported by rigorous research, ideation and intuitive digital design. 

UsabilityHub is a remote user research platform that takes the guesswork out of design decisions by validating them with real users. UsabilityHub have created our pre and post-event survey and are delivering the Intro to remote usability research with UsabilityHub on Thursday afternoon. 

UserTesting is the leading provider of on-demand human insights. More than half of the world’s top 100 brands rely on the UserTesting human insight platform to help them make customer-informed decisions at the speed business demands. UserTesting are running an online webinar on Wednesday; Human Insights Led Roadmap - How to plan, structure and report on research for action. 

UXbridge believes quality user research is at the heart of beautiful human-centred design. UXbridge work closely with their partners to provide unique and valuable insights, infusing great thinking into current and future projects.

Workshop host Visual Academy is on board for the online conference again. Visual Academy upskills designers and researchers in the areas of drawing, visual storytelling and creativity, and are running an exclusive competition for UXA2021 attendees for their October course. 

Thanks to all the UX Australia 2021 sponsors. We’re so grateful for all your support!

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UX Australia 2021 is running online THIS WEEK from August 24 - 27. It’s your last chance to grab tickets, available at Eventbrite!