DesignUp 🚀 Issue #48 > Font Politics, Decisions, Poems & more

July 14, 2017

A warm welcome to all of you who joined recently—this is a mixed issue of designerly links + @DesignUpConf news + poems of our age!

This week, spent hours in long review meetings (useful in parts) and was reminded of this call to cut meeting times in half, stumbled upon a very useful addition to Newsletter 45 on Psychology & Ux: Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet!

We are delayed on the DesignUp registration - the team is working hard to keep prices reasonable (and pay the bills too). Certainly don't want attendees to take on terrible freelance assignments or skip the iPhone8 for a Conference Pass! And for those who asked: yes we are still accepting proposals for talks and workshops. But not for long!

Political scandal in Pakistan and a font (Microsoft's Calibri) at the centre of it. Never underestimate the power of a typeface (or of a spello or a typo) for the devil is in the details (or the lack of it).

Firstly, the headline says it all. Well, almost. But to understand why they fail, you'd have to understand the Presumption Reflex (and more)...

Whereas this is aimed at PMs ('cause "they may not build the actual product, they do produce something very tangible for a team: decisions"), many of the frameworks and ideas are applicable for Designers as well. And helps build the Design-Product bridge! Interesting read...

tweeted Estimote's cofounder.

This newsletter has been citing a few examples, this article is a deeper dive!

Thanks to my friend PRL - who pointed me to Nest Founder (and iPod co-creator) Tony Fadell's suggestion that there should be a "Hippocratic oath for designers, where they pledge to work ethically and 'do no harm' as we are most often responsible for designing addiction into our hardware and software. Did you say unintended consequence? You're not alone...

Poems of our age...

I love the witty works of Brian Bilston — sharing the zeitgeist goodness...

Until next week,