DUp 🚀 #149 👩‍⚕️ DesignUp Clinics, Romanticising ChatGPT, Destresser Design, ASMR Design movement & LittleBig!

It's halfway through 2023 and DesignUp Conference is gearingUp for something special.

In Sept 2022, our first in-person event since the pandemic - DesignUp Reloaded - was high on energy, inspiration, and the human connection we so missed. 700 people in one space, talking, showing, and sharing about all things product, design, innovation, and transformation.

Since then - across the first quarter of 2023, we had over 900 people walk into one of the many DesignUp events in Singapore, Pune, Chennai and Bangalore. Focused events to agenda-less meet-ups, the energy, and the network keeps growing despite the turbulence and the uncertainty of the world around us. So we thought of something different, and ground-up. As we have done previously too, with DesignUpForACause, our fundraising event.

And the doctor will see you now…

📣 Announcing DesignUp Clinics

We’re thrilled to announce DesignUp Clinics - where organisations and individuals can opt for in depth discussions with an expert panel of experienced operators and leaders who have built, redefined and shaped products, organisations and cultures. These are some of the inspiring speakers you’ve met before, some are part of the DesignUp School too. Discover answers, uncover clarity and find new shores - whether it’s for your career, your first job or your startup or maturing org!

The clinics will be held every month on the 4th Saturday - starting on June 24th, with the first clinic being held for Individuals!

👉 Each session for individuals will last between 1 to 1.5 hours
👉 Includes discussion and feedback on your career trajectory, plans or portfolio
👉 Paid, and limited to just 10 sessions
👉 Basis your questions and areas of interest, get matched to the specialist panels

And it’s just more than Design Leaders - our panels include Product leaders, Branding & Marketing Execs, Certified Life and Career Coaches (not the self-proclaimed ones), and Research specialists.

✅ Make an appointment for the next Clinic, and share with your peers. Sign up here!

🌏️ Around the web

Long-term DesignUp collaborator, designer, and educationist Jon Kolko questions the hype around ChatGPT - and challenges designers to explore possibilities about what it can do for us. Maybe, use AI in travel? And of course, as we gain some, we lose some - the fundamental but vanishing skill of Information Architecture, so brush up on some IA models that you can use in your work. Catch a bunch of other useful tools and some bold eye candy below!

🧰 Your Toolkit

💖 Eye Candy

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