Influential work
- Co-designed Child Link to improve information-sharing across agencies to protect children, working with the project team and the Victorian Department of Education to create complex current and future state journey maps. The project won an Australian 2021 Good Design Award.
- Co-designed the Better Planning Approvals Project together with the Department of Transport and Planning to streamline and improve Victorian planning permit processes using human-centred design. The project won an Australian 2023 Good Design Award.
- Captured graphic recordings of a two-week national roundtable with people across the education system, including a government minister, on the issue of school staff abuse
- Led visual design on a leadership development project delivering at velocity, developing new training modules for a global mining company that focused on leadership and culture
- Redesigned the application service for a state government organisation, helping crime victims to apply for financial assistance easily.
Outside of Nous
Alannah has 25 years of experience ranging from engineering to design, working across professional services, digital creative agencies and manufacturing. This diverse experience shapes her strategic and conceptual thinking when designing for clients.
Alannah holds a Diploma of Graphic Design from RMIT, as well as a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) with Honours and a Bachelor of Business from Swinburne University. She has been trained by Vision Australia to create accessible documents that meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines standards. She participated in an intense generative scribing course with Kelvy Bird from The Visual Practice Workshop to learn generative and empathetic listening and scribing through presenting.
In her spare time...
Alannah practices the empathetic art of aikido-yoga, tends to her bonsais and spends time with her family. Her interests are in copperplate calligraphy, painting and illustrating.