DesignUp 🚀 Issue #74 > EnglishTax, Breaking Barriers, Rewriting Rules, Design & #DUp18

It's Oct 15th ⏳and just 10 Days to go to DesignUp 2018 📣 In the meantime, here's some of the top reads that I managed to catch briefly over the last week. Didn't classify them this time though...

On #DUp18 - more workshops (and workshop seats) have been added 🔋🔋🔋Designer Tables have been announced and some of the attendees have been counting down all by themselves on SocMedia!

India2, English Tax and Building for the Next Billion Users

If your (Indian) Co has been talking about the next 100 or 500 million users (or even a Billion if you're Google) you may have heard these before. But I loved the metaphors, the examples, and the reminders on going beyond UI lip-service...

The best way to learn is drawing, even if you're no artist

We have misfiled the significance of drawing because we see it as a professional skill instead of a personal capacity. Is it why "so many of us stop drawing when we become adults?"

Rewriting the Rules of Our Life at Work

There's a paradox that we all face in our work lives, which is we want to get better and we know we need constructive criticism in order to do that, yet criticism makes us feel worse about ourselves. ...the very thing that we need to become more effective, more productive, more creative, is also what sometimes stands in the way of those goals.

Design, or be designed. — medium.com

We bounce between Slack, Asana, InVision, daily stand-ups, email, and more, playing notification whack-a-mole to be good team players. And it all feels urgent in the pressure cooker of tech. So how do you reclaim your space and purpose?

5 Exercises That Break Down Barriers

Walking into a room of strangers can feel daunting. Small talk is hard enough, and it’s even trickier to delve into deeper topics right off the bat... How do you unlock those stories with someone you've just met?

Until next week,

@jdallcaps