Erietta Sapounakis

Product Tank: Fireside chat with Marty Cagan and Malte Feller and the rise of the product creator

Erietta Sapounakis — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:33:09 +0000

I joined a meet-up hosted at the Atlassian office yesterday which brought together over 200 people from the 5,000-member Product Tank community. The event was a panel discussion between Malte Feller and product luminary Marty Cagan. They discussed the changing landscape of product creation, team topologies, leadership, and the impact of AI. Cagan described three […]

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Designing the future with AI – a design leaders panel

Erietta Sapounakis — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:41:55 +0000

This week I braved the rain after work to attend an Attlasian Design event on design and AI with Katie Dill (Head of Design, Stripe), Peter Lofgren (Head of Design, Qantas), and Charlie Sutton (Head of Design, Atlassian). The fireside chat shared questions and approaches on what the rapid paced innovation of AI means to […]

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AI Research – Supercharging your search, not replacing your brain

Erietta Sapounakis — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:12:00 +0000

At the top of this post is an image of the State Library of NSW. Because strangely, using Google Gemini’s Deep Research mode reminded me of researching there in years past. When I was a kid I would go to the State’s Mitchell library, start my research, get out a book, read a section, go […]

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Figma webinar: Rebuilding a design system

Erietta Sapounakis — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:58:00 +0000

CommBank’s Design System Journey The presenter: Gordana Gorgiojski, Senior Product Owner for the Design System at CBA The talk: Figma webinar on CBA’s journey to create a robust and scalable design system using Figma and design tokens. The team: Gordana, who began at CBA as a UI designer and later a chapter lead, now leads […]

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Reflections on accessibility from the Friends of Figma Sydney A11Y Awareness Day

Erietta Sapounakis — Fri, 10 May 2024 12:55:00 +0000

The Sydney Friends of Figma community hosted a special event to celebrate the upcoming A11Y Awareness Day at Atlassian. Featured speakers were Director and Founder of Intopia Sarah Pulis, and Katherine McDermott and Jamal Abdulrahim from See Me Please. “Beyond WCAG: Elevating Your Equitable Design Maturity” Sarah Pulis urged organisations to move beyond compliance with […]

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AI is Pablo Stanley’s creative partner

Erietta Sapounakis — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:52:00 +0000

Pablo Stanley Marquez is a designer, illustrator, cartoonist, musician, serial co-founder (Blush, Lummi), Design Advisory Board member at Canva and a whirlwind of creative energy. His talk at the March 6 Friends of Figma meet-up was in two parts – The UX of AI, followed by demos. The UX of AI Pablo outlined a set […]

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Fostering a Continuous Discovery Culture

Erietta Sapounakis — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 13:03:00 +0000

Yesterday Askable hosted a webinar panel discussion on the topic of continuous discovery. On the panel were Nate Cutcliffe – Enterprise Customer Success, Askable; Emily Barnes – Senior Research Consultant, Askable Plus; and Katharina Rochjadi – Digital Customer Experience Research Manager, Bupa. The research approach “Continuous Discovery” was coined by Teresa Torres in her book […]

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Insights from Service NSW: Running effective content critiques with Liz Leigh

Erietta Sapounakis — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 11:58:21 +0000

At tonight’s Sydney Content Strategy meetup, Liz Leigh, from Service NSW, shared her insights and practices on building the Content Strategy discipline, and how and why to incorporate content critique sessions. Crafting a Vision for Content Design Liz Leigh has defined a vision for content design at Service NSW. Informed by internal research, this vision […]

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