Design Outlook 2025

July 3 — Sofitel Melbourne

Figma

Figma is a design platform for people who build digital products together. From product design to marketing, Figma helps organizations of all sizes bring their ideas to life with powerful, cloud-based tools for design, prototyping, and collaboration.

ANZ

Design at ANZ creates seamless, customer-centred experiences, leveraging insights, innovation, and collaboration to drive financial wellbeing and business impact.

Glau Czarnota

Optimal

Optimal is a comprehensive user insights platform that transforms how businesses understand and engage with their customers. Whether you're designing new products, optimizing existing experiences, or validating strategic decisions, Optimal provides the insights you need to create exceptional user experiences that drive business growth.

Miro

Miro provides a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to dream, design, and build the future together

Jonathan Wigham Matthew Hale Dennis Tringh Elan I Nussinov

Askable

Askable is helping teams across the world, build better products and experiences through customer-centric research

Jona Peck Sarah Taylor

Torii

A community of design thinkers, working with ambitious clients on challenging projects

Joe Woodham Phil Clayton

Numeral

Numeral build modern digital products with a focus on design and a strong belief that what is good for your users is good for your business.

Allan Walker Phil Hodgson

blueegg

Blueegg was founded with an approach that met the standards of scientific rigour. In the decade since, we’ve established ourselves as a place where experience design is driven by evidence, not just opinions.

Adam Faulkner Rich Brophy

Intopia

Intopia are leaders in digital accessibility and inclusion and are the largest team of digital accessibility and equitable design experts in the Southern Hemisphere. Importatly, Intoia are a proudly disability-led and female-led social enterprise passionate about creating an inclusive digital world.

Adem Cifcioglu Sarah Pulis Stewart Hay

nomat

Nomat is a digital product agency that helps organisations maximise the value they gain from technology through human-centred design. This includes research, UX and UI design, experience strategy and service design.

Marli Gray Chris Gray

City of Melbourne

Mantel Group

We're Australia's largest, privately-owned consultancy. We exist to pursue technologies that change the way our customers do business in the real world

Jane Nguyen Aron Tucker

Bunnings

Iterate

Boutique and highly specialised, this tech, design & product focused agency make each connection personal Collaborative. Bigger than the brief. The backbone of it all? A tight knit team of dedicated individuals.

Michael Boyd Sam Bowring

Knowable Me

Knowable Me is a research company that puts lived experience at the centre of design. We work with people with disability to uncover insights that challenge assumptions and spark better, more inclusive products. If you're designing for everyone, we can show you what "everyone" really means.

Kelly Schulz

Sunflower AI

Chuhau Liu Siva Kalyan

Master of Design Futures

The RMIT Master of Design Futures is a post-professional program for practitioners seeking to lead change through design. It fosters critical, transdisciplinary practice grounded in human-centred inquiry, equipping participants to navigate complexity, reframe systems, and develop ethically-driven approaches to transformation across sectors including policy, health, law, education and innovation.

Marius Foley

RMIT

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