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DUp 📣 Issue 157 > 24 DaysToGo, 100Hands, Climate Collective, Data Gov, Dark Patterns & More...

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October 31, 2023

📣 Countdown to DesignUp #StepUpTo24

Time flies like an arrow and passes keep flying off! We’re down to that number - TwentyFour. 24 days to go for DesignUp #StepUpTo24 and we’re all super excited to welcome you back to our brand new format, in-person event! Excited and a little nervous - our speakers’ longlist is wayyyy longer, and converting into the shortlist was a hard task - esp since we wanted a wide diversity of thoughts, perspectives, opinions, and PoVs! To enrich your worldview, perspectives, and takeaways for 2024!

👉🏽 👉🏽 Early Bird passes are now sold out, but you have ✨10 days to grab your All-Access Pass✨ Don’t miss out!

🌟 Speaker Spotlight

Our speakers are an eclectic bunch of people, doing the good work that’s needed in the world right now!

🎤 Divya Hegde

Divya Hegde is the founder of Baeru and is currently part of the Women Climate Collective, a community seeking to increase the representation of women’s voices in the climate conversation. Here’s a glimpse into one of her many initiatives for climate change:

Waste To Wonderful: How Divya Hegde's Venture Baeru Empowers Women

Divya Hegde’s venture Baeru addresses the global plastic waste challenge through Circular Economy and suggests the main actions that we need to take: Eliminate, Innovate, Circulate.

🎤 Rahul Matthan

The talk Privacy by Design by Rahul Matthan was (unsurprisingly) a big hit at DesignUp Conference 2022. Providentially, Rahul has recently launched his new book, The Third Way: India’s Revolutionary Approach to Data Governance.

The Third Way

Rahul Matthan’s latest book The Third Way: India’s Revolutionary Approach to Data Governance, presents a new approach to data governance, which he says can be found within India’s digital public infrastructure itself, and offers policymakers new levers of regulation.

🎤 Bijoy Ramachandran

In this talk, architect and urban designer Bijoy Ramachandran, co-founder at HundredHands, introduces the audience to the design process of an architect, and explores the question, “What Happened to Architecture?” Incidentally, Bijoy’s firm HundredHands also designed the popular institution Bangalore International Centre.

🇮🇳 Governance for Dark Patterns in India’s Digital Policy

Design veteran Sridhar Dhulipala reports: In a welcome step, the Government of India’s Department of Consumer Affairs under Minister Piyush Goyal made public their draft Guidelines on “Prevention and Regulation of Dark Patterns”, a big step towards ensuring consumer rights are protected with adequate legal redressal mechanisms. It addresses subtle (or in-your-face) design or advertising tricks that subvert or impair user autonomy, influence decision-making, and work to the detriment of the user.

☎️ The ministry also set up a helpful “National Consumer Helpline - 1915” besides their GAMA portal to report misleading advertisements.

🌐 The not-for-profit trust, Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), welcomes the policy and encourages expanding the list to cover more malpractices such as obstruction, social proofs, psychological pricing, growth hacking, linguistic dead-ends, roach motels, privacy zuckering, nagging, privacy maze, bait and switch and linguistic dead-ends.

👉🏽 For an authoritative list of dark patterns visit Deceptive Design. As user-centric design practitioners, designers should be aware of these, champion user rights, and evangelize this resource in their network.

🌏️ Around the Web

40 Trailblazing Companies Beating the West

Faster, smarter, more adaptable: these emerging market pioneers are outmaneuvering Silicon Valley for global domination.

200 Best Inventions of 2023 by Time Magazine

Groundbreaking innovations that are making the world better, smarter, and a little more fun!

🗃️ Your Toolkit

What is “Seeing The Matrix” For A Product Leader?

Scott Belsky, Adobe, shares some observations on essential realizations that would cause product leaders to see every challenge and opportunity differently.

In this interview at the World Economic Forum, distinguished professor, futurist, and academic Genevieve Bell explains how to avoid reductive thinking about tech.

💝 Eye Candy

Postmates Campaign - This is Your Brain on Food

Mother LA agency, along with a multi-disciplinary team, created the ad campaign for Postmates, the food delivery service. The vibrant campaign was inspired by the sensory experiences of food cravings.

Memories of Childhood Games

Vietnamese illustrator Bui Ngan reaches out to the viewer through these evocative paintings of games from her childhood.

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🍀 Stay curious, and see you soon - in 24 days…