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DesignUp 🦄 Issue #81 > DUp19 Speaker slides, links, notes, interviews, overviews & more
It's DesignUp 2019 roundup time 🎁 This year DesignUp, and our wonderful speakers, got over 48 features in mainline Newspapers, Magazines, and eZines - apart from many many blog posts, threads, social media stories. If you missed attending the Festival - this is for you, and if you attended, here's to re-living it all over again! I have divided these into:
☂️ DUp19 Overviews
📣 Speaker slides & useful links
⛵️ Session notes/posts
💥 Speakers in spotlight
📣 Deconstruct
🧿 Behind the scenes
🛵 DesignUp Tribe (we launched it at DUp19)
Overviews
From Service to Strategy: DesignUp 2019 frames opportunities for design leaders in business — yourstory.com
For an overview, this is the place to start: In the first post on DesignUp 2019 takeaways, YourStory's Madan Rao says the conference "offers a wealth of frameworks, case studies, and tips for designers at the forefront of the creative economy."
From Practice to Purpose: DesignUp 2019 raises the bar of excellence for the design community — yourstory.com
In his second YourStory post on DUp19, Madan says the Festival "raised the bar" and set the audience on a journey - "from inner reflection to broader engagement, the annual conference rallied the designer community to explore new ground in a world of digital opportunity and challenges"
Sketch-notes and notes from Soo Basu who says DesignUp "isn't just a design conference it's made by designers for designers. In the conference lineup there was a mix of data+design, the pluralities that exist in India with design for the social sector, design leadership" and much more!
Trupti's Insta post is concise, no-fuss, visibly sorted overview: "5 reasons why I enjoyed attending DesignUp Conference'19"
Kshitij Anand on the after effects of the conference, which "lasted long into multiple weeks, starting from the 14th BeerUX meet up in Bangalore to culminating in the DesignUp Stories sharing sessions"
"DesignUp festival in Bengaluru, looks at the intersection between design and technology.It has been created as a holistic guides that are directly relevant to issues in a developing nation."
Slides (and useful links)
Hardik also has an interesting thread on 'the making of the talk'
+ Gurman's interview with YourStory
Gurman's essential list of blogs, inspirations, podcasts, books
+ Param's interview with YourStory
Session Notes/Posts
An overview of Dave's DesignOps Masterclass, with a hint of magic and dash of spells... (goes best with Dave's deck, right above)
My first time at DUp was in ’18, and as an attendee. It’ll not be an exaggeration if I say I was completely bowled over. It was my first design conference and I’m glad to have set a good bench mark…
Stu Smith's write up encapsulates his #DUp19 talk! "Have you ever been to a truly great performance? Think about the best music festival or play that you’ve attended. Seeing artists perform at the top of their game is one of the most amazing…" Trupti has an insta post on this
DUp19 Speakers in the Spotlight
FirstPost: In the digital age, it's easy to forget that data points are actually people' — www.firstpost.com
Language learning app Duolingo's design lead, Jack Morgan talks to Firstpost about the problem of illiteracy, the power of language, and what makes for good design solutions.
The decade that was: Four design experts from around the globe share their thoughts on technology over the last 10 years
Scott Sorokin is the Global Head of Infosys Experience Design (Infosys XD), on helping companies succeed in the landscape of mobile, social, search, and data.
The New Indian Express: Devika Krishnan on how design can create sustainable livelihoods — indianexpress.com
The importance of keeping enterprises small for self-sustenance and that women are a much-ignored untapped workforce.
Designers need to accept how they may have contributed to problems in the past. Designing in countries like India and China requires factoring in a range of eras, Simone explains.
The New Indian Express: Bengaluru's crowd is the subject for this Japanese designer — www.newindianexpress.com
Takuma Nakata came up with this installation in collaboration with Patricia Reiners, a User Interface designer whom he met during the Adobe Creative resident programme. The man behind the 60ft installation that wowed DUp visitors.
Payal Arora, the author of The Next Billion Users, on whether the Internet binds or divides...
Rufus Deuchler is Principal Manager of Creative Cloud Evangelism at Adobe Systems shares his tips and tricks, and looks back/ahead...
DesignUp Deconstruct
"No parent ever forced a child to become a designer"
Insights from the DesignUp Deconstruct were shared on stage by Ripul and Rasagy, the detailed report on skills, gaps, changing dynamics and perceptions - comes to your desks (and desktops) in early 2020
Behind the Scenes
"Candid take from a crew member of Asia’s premier conference for DesignInTech"
"India’s largest Design Conference is more than a collection of talks", so says THC, diving behind the scenes into the making of another edtion of DUp, our 1st Festival and an event at a scale that presents a whole new set of challenges. So how do we stay sane, do our day jobs and juggle with a Festival?
Launched at DUp19:
DesignUp Tribe is a limited membership programme with a host of benefits and many ways to lock in all the DesignUp goodness. Why? Or what's on offer? Check out or signup for an invite via www.designuptribe.io
Until the next randomly timed newsletter,