Design Swansea #85 - Owen Friend and Lee Woodman

This month we are joined by Owen Friend and Lee Woodman talking side quests and digital visibility.

Come join us at Urban HQ for inspiring talks and connect with our incredible creative community in Swansea with a few drinks and a slice of pizza.

Owen Friend

Side quests

Owen is a self-employed designer based in Barry, where he lives with his young family and works out of his shed.
"I love being a designer, but I increasingly find myself being pulled in different creative directions, and the older I get, the more I'm learning to embrace my instinctive urge to side quest."

Lee Woodman

Designing for Discovery: How Data Structure Shapes Digital Visibility

Lee brings together a mix of technical, commercial and marketing expertise, helping organisations understand how their websites, data structures and digital propositions are interpreted by search engines, AI assistants and customers. His work focuses on uncovering how businesses can improve visibility, performance and decision-making by presenting themselves more clearly across the digital landscape.

In this talk, Lee Woodman explores why businesses need to think beyond websites and campaigns, and start thinking about how clearly they represent themselves as data. With limited attention from Google, ChatGPT, Claude and other digital gatekeepers, the businesses that communicate their proposition most efficiently will have the best chance of being found, understood and recommended.

Our Venue

Urban HQ

The event will be held at Urban HQ on37 Orchard Street, Swansea, SA1 5AJ. It's next to the UWTSD ALEX Building and opposite the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery.

Design Swansea is supported by...

MeeCreative

tcols.design

Waters Creative

Swansea College of Art

Gower College

Swansea University

Urban HQ

4theRegion

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