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116: Design Patterns for Learning – Catriona Malcolm

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February 21, 2023
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50min 10sec
116: Design Patterns for Learning – Catriona Malcolm
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116: Design Patterns for Learning – Catriona Malcolm
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In this episode of Learning Uncut, I speak with Catriona Malcolm (or Cat as she is also known). She is the Enterprise Design Practice Lead at Westpac Group. With a workforce of around 40,000 people across seven business entities whose core service is banking, Cat’s role was created four years ago specifically to address the complexity of designing skills development solutions across these seven entities. We cover a lot of elements of the Westpac approach in this episode. We look at approaches such as “learning front door”,  “citizen development” and their L&D Community of Practice. Cat has provide excellent resources – if you’d like to dig deeper you can find these below.

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Episode 116 Transcript
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Catriona Malcolm LinkedIn profile
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Christopher Alexander: The father of pattern language. Article with links to additional resources.
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Design pattern definition and Westpac examples –
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Introducing design systems – the power of scale by Marco Suarez (a primer)
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Recording (30 mins) of a meetup presentation from Atlassian on how the design system is a product for your product (or learning) designers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZNxwlIbjCE
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Neurodiversity: Some Basic Terms & Definitions
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The 4 steps to designing an effective taxonomy
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Michelle Ockers

An award-winning speaker, Michelle brings decades of learning and development experience as she interviews business leaders and learning professionals to uncover interesting stories, authentic conversations, and new insights.
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