Back after a long hiatus ⌛️In the meantime the DesignUp Pre-events wrapped up in Chennai, Hyderabad and Singapore, we're less than 60 days to the conference (more details below👇) and there are 2 more exciting events to go before that (watch this space)!

Meanwhile: Apple's Sept event is coming up and watched, as always, with lot of anticipation. Firefox gets all set to block cross-site third-party trackers–those curious cookies hidden in plain sight—time to switch? Steve Jobs' daughter Lisa has a book out on her famous dad, and Yuval Noah Harari has his 3rd book out—21 lessons for the 21st Century. Then there's this wicked LinkedIn Recruitment Message Generator.

In the meantime, here are a few reads from the last few weeks (including a few on animating Ux)

Sorry UX, the party’s over

Robert Skrobe believes that there’s going to be "a huge correction in the market this time next year for UX" and the party may well be over. From my vantage point in India, and a limited Asian perspective, looks like the party got going... but what do you think, what does your future-forward vision tell you? Is it the term UX that's in imminent danger (like so many other terms that have gone before it), or...

Crowdsource your color decisions — www.fastcompany.com

You may have stumbled upon Picular - "a new color search tool that lets you enter any search term and presents you with a slew of options... It’s a color-picker, courtesy of internet hive mind". How does it work?

Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifesto

‘UI Animation’ is typically thought of by designers as something that makes the user experience more delightful, but overall doesn’t add much value. Thus, UI Animation is often treated like the red-headed stepchild of UX (apologies to red-headed stepchildren everywhere). If at all, it usually comes at the end, as a final lipstick pass.

Animating on a Schedule — medium.com

This was an obvious favourite since it was at the intersection of good design, thoughtful animation and tech/solutions for events: in this case Google I/O 2018 Conference app. And it features the word: "Hero Animation"

Don Norman: Why bad technology dominates our lives

"We have unwittingly accepted the paradigm that technology comes first, with people relegated to doing the actions that the machines cannot do. This requires people to act like machines, ever ready to take over when things go wrong."

DesignUp News

The countdown has begun ⏰ DesignUp 2018 Conference kicks off in Bangalore in a few weeks! Whereas the Early Birds, SuperEarly Birds and Masterclass+Full Confy combos sold out within days and weeks - a few Premium Passes and FullConference passes remain 📣 Remember, FullyConfys include access to workshops. Register here, or read the Registration FAQs or get the download on Venue, Hotels, Stay, Parking and more - before you register! Remember the airfares only keep going up ✈️ so book soon!

DesignUp Did Singapore and it was great fun connecting with a brand new set of people in a new land who share the same questions, concerns and hopes - to make human life better through Design in Tech. Pics from the event are all here (feel free to tag yourself) - thanks Amy, Aditi and Kerry for your kind words :-)

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Winding down with a throwback to DesignUp 2017 - where Alysha Naples takes us "Beyond the Screen" (45 mins, YouTube)

Until next week 🤟

@jdallcaps