EP111 with Steve Baty

This episode sees us sitting with Steve Baty, co-founder and principal of Meld Studios. Let’s just get this out of the way, Steve is a mad cyclist, so we begin there before he expertly links it back to service design, user experience and how to solve ‘dumb shit’ quickly. Steve has an uncanny ability to see the core of the problem and we talk through a range of case studies that explain Melds approach. The team at Meld is incredibly diverse, with a wide range of experience and skills, not normally seen in a studio. We discuss this and also look at the importance of community and Steve’s role in UX Book Club, the Good Design Council of Australia, IxDA and the UX Australia conferences. At some point Matt manages to steer the conversation towards education (surprise surprise) and Steve’s multiple academic qualifications. Special thanks to our friends Streamtime for their ongoing support. Check them out at streamtime.net. Get a free account. Try them out. It’’ll be time well spent. Thank you also to Adobe for lending us their Adobe LIVE sound room to record in. Go to adobeapaclive.com to see their library of video tutorials. Photo credit: Emma Nevison https://www.emmanevison.com Links: Meld Studios: https://www.meldstudios.com.au Meld Studios Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meldstudios Steve Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/docbaty Steve LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebaty UX Australia: http://www.uxaustralia.com.au UX Book Club SYD: https://www.uxbookclubsydney.com/home Good Design Council of Australia: https://good-design.org IxDA: https://ixda.org Streamtime: https://streamtime.net Adobe LIVE: https://www.adobeapaclive.com