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DesignUp 🚀 Issue #60 > Naresh's Talk, State-of-Ux, Words, India's Ux Industry, RoundUp

December 19, 2017

Issue 60 - another milestone to your encouraging support. Your feedback, sharing, the growing readership - it all helps immensely!

There's lots to see/hear and read in this issue—but not a lot of fiction. I have been encouraging designers to read a lot more fiction - here's why + some book recommendations. So this winter holidays, make friends with fiction :-) 

Back to this newsletter—

Must see: Naresh's wonderful, inspiring talk at the 2017 conference - where he talked about going back to our roots, about ingenious *DESI*gn. 

I am also delighted to announce RoundUp 2017-18—the annual review/survey of Design-in-tech in India/SE Asia. Looking forward to your participation (it needs your voice, your viewpoints). It isn't short, quick or easy, but good things need a little time, patience and perseverance. More details below... 

A wonderful collection of Commencement Addresses, including (but not limited to) the iconic Steve Jobs' "stay hungry, stay foolish" address. Recommended watch/listen!

I am pretty sure you've read through this one, if you haven't - please don't skip it! If you're impatient, jump right to the end: the highlights of 2017

"In many ways, India is the new frontier of UX design, with a hungry, driven group of UX designers ready to find solutions to local and global problems." An Adobe blog-post looking at Ux-in-India, Indian Design scene, and more, with inputs from Khoi Vinh and yours truly!

From DesignUp2017...

Not strictly design, but I liked the curation: "some of the year’s most influential writers, thinkers, and experts reflect on the words that matter most in 2017". What would be your words of 2017?

Lend your voice to the 2017-18 RoundUp

DesignUp's RoundUp is a comprehensive survey, review and "roundup" of Design-in-tech in India/SE Asia. It's aim: to capture the hopes, the concerns, the trends, the patterns - around UX/IxD practice, process, industry and education. It's intended to be published as a series of blog posts (and you can be anonymous if you wish), capturing our learnings and your viewpoints. So, get started...

Until next week,