It's the week of India's tryst with festivals and holidays! Hope you had a wonderful time and a rejuvenating holiday weekend 🔔  #Inktober2017 has just started and it's a last few days to UxNow in NewDelhi!

📣  Also delighted to announce the DesignUp Pre-event on Tue, Oct 10 in Bangalore. The last of the pre-events, this one is exactly 30 days away from the DesignUp Conference on Nov 10-11. 

Here's an assorted mix of some 'goodness', practical tips and a longish read on why not being famous isn't all that terrible...

2017: The Year UX Found Its Conscience

"We’re beginning to reckon with the fact that all our addictive apps may be coming at a huge social cost" and that we may be working for our phone (and not the other way around) or that we may be the product: our data, our mind-share, our attention is on sale. But is 2017 the year when we start to deal with the dark patterns that have become de rigueur?

The Year’s Most Powerful Ad Campaigns For Good — www.fastcompany.com

6 Steps To Creating A Knockout Online Portfolio

As the Chief Designer of Behance, Matias Corea has reviewed thousands of creative portfolios on the web. Here he has six practical and time-tested skills to create a stand-out portfolio online!

How We Make Up Our Minds: 4 Books — www.nytimes.com

Wondered what the "typo of the mind" is, or the science behind infectious behaviours and viral emotions? These are four highly recommended books about the mechanics of the mind, decision making and more!

Nostalgia: A Product Designer’s Secret Weapon

Ryan Hoover, co-creator of Product Hunt describes 'how nostalgia is used to drive attention and build an engaging product'. With plenty of examples it's a walk down memory lane...

You’ll Never Be Famous — www.nytimes.com

"Most young adults won’t achieve the idealistic goals they’ve set for themselves. They won’t become the next Mark Zuckerberg. But does that mean their lives will lack significance and worth?"

Speaker Profile

After speaking at the UxNow conference in New Delhi, Monika Bielskyte will be in Bangalore for the DesignUp Pre-Event on October 10, Tuesday. This will be the last pre-event before the main DesignUp Conference.

Monika is a futurist with an artist's eye and an inventor’s mind. Her clients include Hollywood productions (Ridley Scott Associates, Universal, Alex McDowell, Sam Esmail, Guy Laliberte), technology giants (CERN, Intel, Telefonica), design companies (Rick Owens, Aston Martin) and governments (UAE). 

Monika prototypes culturally diverse, socially and environmentally engaged future world prototypes for the entertainment industry, technology companies, and cities. A large part of her time is devoted to research and strategy in the immersive media technology space (Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality). Monika's work consists in connecting bleeding edge technological innovation with some of the world's most original creative visions.

And it's not too late to start for #Inktober 2017

See you at UxNow this Saturday 👋

or the DesignUp Pre-event next week :-)

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