Evelyn Lee, Founder of the Practice Of Architecture and Senior Experience Designer at Slack Technologies.

Evelyn Lee's career shows how architecture training can move into experience design, organisational culture and technology without losing its design value.

Stephen Drew speaks with Evelyn Lee about Practice of Architecture, Practice Disrupted, her role as a Senior Experience Designer at Slack Technologies, organisational culture, people-first design and alternative routes from architecture.

The conversation covers:

• How Evelyn Lee connects architecture, business and experience design
• What working in technology can teach architecture professionals
• Why organisational culture matters to design outcomes
• How Practice of Architecture and Practice Disrupted approach industry change
• What alternative career paths can look like for architecture-trained people

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Chapters

• 00:00 Introduction to Evelyn Lee
• 04:00 Practice of Architecture and Practice Disrupted
• 10:00 Moving from architecture into experience design
• 16:00 Working at Slack Technologies
• 23:00 Business, design and organisational culture
• 31:00 Putting people first in design outcomes
• 38:00 The current state of the architecture industry
• 46:00 Behind the scenes of podcasting and practice change
• 52:00 Final reflections on future careers

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