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DesignUp 🚀 Issue 65 > Prioritization, Illustration, Quotes, Call for Talks & More
This week, got reminded that:
it's been a year since BBC-Dad became (in)famous—here's his reflections on life since that episode
one of the great mysteries of life has been long solved: how to regram (reposting on Instagram)
and that standing desks do indeed have "side effects"
Closer home, the Call for Talks and Workshops for DesignUp 2018 (Oct 26-27) is now open. Head down for the link to the detailed post👇before you start framing your proposal.
Plus here's been a bunch of things I enjoyed stumbling upon. I have added *BIG* images for 43% added pizzazz!
A thoughtful short read from Khoi - this looks at two very different kinds of approaches to illustration, one spectrum represented by editorial illustrations that are rich in variety, ambitious in scale, and those homogenous others that "you might mistake as excerpts from a children’s book, except that they depict grown adults doing ostensibly grown-up things."
This isn't exactly design - but if you want to see your great designs move out of Zeplin and into the hands of the users then understanding prioritization is key. As is understanding how your organisation, engineering, business—and most importantly PMs—prioritise. And it goes to the heart of understanding what users value most. "Prioritization means doing the things that are most important first. If you build products, it means doing the things that create the most customer value first."
Eighteen years since the book came out, but every few weeks I have to state the blindingly obvious and almost self-evident. These are a collection of his quotable quotes, keep them handy. As I have realised, there's no such thing as blindingly obvious!
"For many designers, the idea that an experience with Amazon’s visual complexity succeeds is somewhat confounding. So, how might a designer look at Amazon to understand why it works, despite—if not because of—its aesthetic?"
DesignUp Conference is back in Bangalore, India, on October 26–27, 2018.
We’re inviting practitioners, researchers and academics to submit their ideas, drafts and proposals for talks and workshops. This post is to help you understand the conference, the audience and the way we select talks—and why you should send in your proposals early.
Last week I featured an article by designer Mike Monteiro, and this week we have his '10-point list of guidelines for design ethics' turned into posters.
Until next week,