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DesignUp 🎈Issue #78 > Hurry Slowly, Future of Work, Beyond Portfolios, Relieve/Recap, DUp+DI Challenge Winners

Our partner events - UxNow and UxTh wrapped up over the last two weekends - and it's time for us to unwrap our 2019 schedule. We are back with 2 major events this year: The DesignUp Asia Conference (June 18-19) and The DesignUp Festival, including our big Conference in Bangalore (Nov 14-16) 🥁🥁🥁

🏆The winners of the DUp+DesignIndaba challenge have been announced 📣🥇1st prize winner Manivarma will be on his way to CapeTown shortly, while we caught up with 🥈2nd prize winner Raghav Sarin in Bangkok. Our 🥉3rd prize winner Muskan is headed for DesignUp Asia Conference in Singapore. All of them get a premium pass to the DesignUp Festival.

In the meantime, here's unwrapping a bunch of goodness: thoughtful articles, podcasts—and the much awaited #DUp18 wrap-up!

“The amount of love and care you put into a project is always apparent. Even if people are not conscious of it, they can sense when you have paid attention to every little detail.”

"Design portfolios are overrated! I’m not saying design portfolios aren’t important, only that we put entirely too much emphasis on their value to a student’s job aspirations, or a designer’s career success."

Journalist and Boston University professor Ellen Shell joined Recode’s Kara Swisher in studio to talk about her latest book, The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change. Shell explained why some of the conventional wisdom about the future of work is misguided and offered pragmatic advice for people entering an increasingly automated job market.

"There are very strong deterministic forces that drive the industry forward - Moore's Law, network effects, economies of scale, migration of value up the stack and so on. But there's also a strong element of chance and luck. Great talent and execution and great ideas are part of the mix, but sometimes you're also in the right place at the right time."

"There’s something special about attending a design conference. Each one has a very specific ‘buzz’, if you will, created by hundreds of nerdy designers gathering together, forming this frenetic hive mind over the course of a weekend. For that period of time, even if you are at the farthest corners of the cavernous banquet hall, there’s a feeling of being connected to your tribe."

"Lost here is the gentle pursuit of a modest competence, the doing of something just because you enjoy it, not because you are good at it. Hobbies, let me remind you, are supposed to be something different from work. But alien values like “the pursuit of excellence” have crept into and corrupted what was once the realm of leisure..."

See you in March,

@JDallcaps