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DesignUp 🚀 Issue #72 > Design & Dev, Difficult Data, Ethics, Neutrality & 30-Days-to-Go for DesignUp2018

September 25, 2018

A lot of interesting-ness has piled up over the last few weeks, I have sorted it out into the practical, the thoughtful and everything events! Meanwhile...

It's 30 days to go for DesignUp Conference ⏰If you haven't yet bought your pass, then here's the good news: a few still remain! And the bad news: Not too many + the workshop selection opens soon ⏱

What's more 📣DesignUp is exclusively curating the DesignTrack at YourStory's TechSparks Conference on Sat, October 6th. As part of the community, you get a gravity-defying 55% discount 💥to the entire conference! More details below.

The Practical...

Our efforts to measure and improve UX are packed with tragically ironic attempts to love our users: we try to find ways to improve our app experiences by bloating them [...] Often the net result is a slower page load, a frustrating experience...

It takes both the creative and technical part to successfully build and ship digital projects like websites or apps.

The inability to deal with long strings of text is the most basic and maybe most common way components can fail when coming in contact with real data. There's more...

The thoughtful...

“Our brains like to close things out, [...] a lot of design now is trying to turn all of us into obsessive-compulsives by making it so the loops are never closed.”

Four working artists and creatives answer the question of the century: Should I delete my social media accounts?

Designers can’t simply make digital products easier to use. They have to think about what’s in the best interests of the user, writes Adobe’s Khoi Vinh.

And the event updates

Thanks to you, we have come a long way in two short years - and our 3rd Conference starts off in just 30 days! Here's a quick recap, the story so far:

See you at TechSparks on Oct 6th - and at DesignUp on Oct 25th,