DesignUp 🚀 Issue #44 > Onboarding, Painful facts, UnApple

June 11, 2017

UxPowerUp is now the DesignUp Newsletter.

At it's heart, like the conference, it's all about sharing, learning, up-skilling and powering-up with those little designerly insights that make a difference. Be it a conference, a link, a talk, a tip or a meetup. So in many ways, the newsletter is the same (though suggestions for change are always welcome).

And, occasionally, it will also bring you news and updates from the @DesignUpConf as well as other events, meetups and conferences.

This week's interestingness: Killer cameras, blank states, painful facts-of-life and more... 

"Snapchat knew it from the start, but in recent months Google and Facebook have all but confirmed it: The keyboard, slowly but surely, is fading into obscurity." But then it may not be as easy (but that's another story)...

When a new user finishes onboarding and first starts to use an app, they will often see “blank state” pages. So how do other digital products make sense of that blank state? Here are a few handy examples!

Danish writer Mikael Wulff and cartoon artist Anders Morgenthaler – the creative duo known as Wumo – has created a brilliant series of graphs that illustrate some of the basic painful truths of everyday life in the Western world (and pockets of other worlds). 

Painful truths about salary...

Amidst killer cameras, painful facts and fake news—here's some real good news for designers: "You know design is having its moment when IBM, the stodgy normcore dad of the tech industry, gets in on the action". And IBM is not alone, as more companies look at hiring more designers. Here's a peek into all the hiring action!

"By marrying design and technology, Apple evolved from a niche brand for hobbyists into one of most valuable companies ever." And this is a long ode to alternative design philosophies (and an appeal to think beyond Apple-ness)—one that puts authenticity and substance - ahead visual polish and style!

Until next week,