An eventful week: the DesignUp team was in Pune for the very first pre-event outside of Bangalore! Wonderful seeing the energy and the oversubscribed attendance (more details below)! This newsletter features some articles referencing back the talks.

Plus: The Interaction18 Conference's Call-for-proposals are open for just 4 more days! IxDA's flagship conference in Lyon, France (in Feb 2018) is keen to showcase diverse learnings and case-studies—esp from AsiaPac, LatAm, Africa and the MiddleEast ⏳ Apply now!

The countdown to UxNow continues ⏳ And in 60 days DesignUp Conference will open it's doors...

The Most Crucial Design Job Of The Future — www.fastcodesign.com

What is a data ethnographer, and why is it poised to become so important?

Have Designers Lost Control Of Design?

Call it a design paradox: More than ever before, designers are sitting on the C-suite of companies. Large corporations are investing in design because it makes good business sense... And yet, "with power has come less responsibility. Designers have less control over what they put out, in some cases.”

Google Is Becoming The Adobe Of VR — www.fastcodesign.com

With its new app Blocks, Google is getting serious about designing for VR, AR, and everything in between...

Tom Gruber: How AI can enhance our memory, work and social lives

How smart can our machines make us? Tom Gruber, co-creator of Siri, wants to make "humanistic AI" that augments and collaborates with us instead of competing with (or replacing) us. He shares his vision for a future where AI helps us achieve superhuman performance...

How Humans Are Shaping Our Own Evolution

If you listened through Tom's TED talk - this would be the next read: "When I met the cyborg Neil Harbisson, in Barcelona, he looked like any local hipster, except for the black antenna arching impressively from the back of his skull over his mop of blonde hair." (Is that the route to super designers?)

Thank you Pune

Turns out that Punekars love DesignInTech 😍 it was a full house: two awesome workshops, an energetic bunch of people (from students, teachers to seasoned practitioners). And talks ranging from Insourcing Design, to Chimps-Humans-AI, Bots taking over work, why Poets are increaingly employable, Jobs-to-be-done, Blockchain replacing the EC, rethinking 8th Sept 2038 (and where will you be?)—and much much more!

Thank you Pune - it was great being there! Pics & Videos on our Fb page 👉

Until the next week,

JDallcaps