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DesignUp ⏰ - Issue #132, Speaker spotlights, PreConf Meetups, Growth toolkits and more!
⏰ Just 24 days to go for DesignUp 2022 ⏰
Registrations are open, and pre-conference events have started. Lightning talks get closed this week and more speakers will be added this week! Block your calendar for 17-18 Sept in Bangalore, with talks, meetups, and networking - and this year we're also adding something more participative, un-conferencey! And don't forget the delectable desserts 😋
In this issue, we have speaker spotlights - Chetana Deorah talking about the role of design in growth, Harish Sivaramakrishnan sharing his insights on art and design, and Ashish Goel's new book Design for Courage. And you'll also find tools to think about product growth - trends for data-heavy UX and Patterns and lessons for product growth.
🎉 We're delighted to welcome back Adobe as our Networking Dinner Host (this year it's one inclusive pass for all), Shell India as our Scholarship Sponsor; Betafi as our Research Partner 🎉 AND Academy, Maverick Capital, O'be Cocktails, and Bonomi as our community partners & exhibitors.
🍻 Let the Pre-Conf Meetups begin!
Had such a great time with our Pre-Conf MeetUp!
The event was small, few Senior Designers, Leaders & Founders met up with @joulee@dburka over lunch to talk about the Design community in India, rapidly evolving/maturing design-in-tech landscape, what makes India unique, and...
— Jay Dutta (@jdallcaps)
6:23 AM • Aug 21, 2022
An insightful talk from DUp'18, Yonatan Levy talked about how we get our best ideas with our backs against the wall.
"Remember, uncertainty is creativity, it's not an obstacle"
🤩 Speaker spotlight
Chetana Deorah, currently Program Partner, On Deck, and previously at Netflix and Coursera, talks about the role of design to drive business outcomes for some of the top companies in the world. She says, the role of a designer is to ask not the what or the how, but the why.
Harish heads the design team at CRED, and is also the lead vocalist and founder of the Carnatic rock band called Agam. While his past gigs include Freecharge, Google, Myntra, and Adobe, Harish has also been touring with Agam for the last 13 years.
Ashish Goel, former Head of Design at Zomato, has also taught at the d.school. He runs his sparkling water brand Boca and is currently Product Head at Blinkit. In this book, he talks about the risks worth taking and the stands worth making.
🧰 Your toolkit
Visualizing huge amounts of data gathered with AI and ML isn’t helpful if that data doesn’t make sense. Jon Torres shares some UX design trends to help transform data-heavy UI into more insightful and less overwhelming UX.
The founder's journey is way more convoluted than we know. Work-Bench shares the biggest lessons, patterns, and mistakes many founders make when transitioning from one stage to the next.
💖 Eye Candy
Take a look at the work of Keiichi Tanaami, a leading figure in postwar Japanese art. His work rose to prominence in the 1960s and will be the subject of an upcoming new show Keiichi Tanaami: Manhattan Universe in New York next month.
Though the Bauhaus has become synonymous with minimal and geometric systems of design, similar ideas have been around long before the Bauhaus. In Ecuador, Land of the Shuar, Vanessa Zúñiga Tinizaray refocuses geometric and systematic design principles on a culture far from 20th-century Europe.
⏰ See you soon
Let’s catch up at DesignUp 2022!
👋 See you soon,