An Upcoming Event (this Sunday afternoon), a collection of articles including one featuring rubber chickens, and three more fantastic talks from DesignUp2019! Rewind to the the "May the 4th" session of "not-another-webinar". And a special section on the designerly infatuation with masks.

Stay home, stay safe and stay inspired :)

A designer and a rubber chicken walk into a meeting… — medium.com

From DUp18 Keynote speaker, Jurgen Spangl, comes this post. Worth revisiting in the times of endless zoom calls and somewhat awkward communications: "just like at every other company, I’ve sat in meetings that went in circles, or dragged on because someone made their point 5 minutes ago but kept talking and nobody wanted to be the one to shut them up. Then one day, a rubber chicken changed my life."

UX myths to forget in 2020 — uxdesign.cc

In a year where we are forgetting a whole lot of things, here's a timely reminder to forget Ux Myths. After all, "the unfathomable stream of information made more difficult to distinguish the signal from the noise. As James Gleick famously said: When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive."

Component skills for digital product designers — uxdesign.cc

Ashish looks at learning to learn - a recommended read if you're on your journey to becoming a digital product designer or teaching/mentoring someone.

Upcoming Event(s)

DesignUp Circuit: The (Not-So) Secret Life of Designers — 2020circuit.designup.io

Register for today's lazy-sunday afternoon meet, hear two Designers: Suresh Venkat and Anurag Arora whose interests have taken them to newer areas, while keeping them rooted in Design. You can also sign up for upcoming "not-another-webinars" - The 5x5 and Remote Design with Jan Chipchase.

Rewind: May the 4th Be With You

Talks from DesignUp 2019

▶️ Dhruv Saxena: The Value Design Brings to the Table — designup.io

Dhruv Saxena, Co-Founder of Bangalore based Design Consultancy - Obvious examines the ‘The Value Design brings to the Table‘

▶️ Karen Faith: Applied Empathy — designup.io

Karen Faith Ethnographer, Director of Strategy at SubRosa on Empathy, Design and Scientific thinking and more...

▶️ Akash Chandan: Runner-Ups — designup.io

Akash Chandan Design & Research, Dunzo and Ex-Urban Fellow, IIHS reflects on the stories and learnings from the "Runners" of Dunzo

On Masks

Facial-recognition masks let wearers unlock their phones — www.dezeen.com

Artist Danielle Baskin has set up Resting Risk Face, a company that will print user's faces on masks so they can use facial recognition technology while wearing them.

This designer turns Yeezys and Ikea bags into $5,000 masks. You can, too — www.fastcompany.com

Zhijun Wang has a mask in the MoMA. Now he’s teaching everyone how to make their own.

How your business can help fight coronavirus: One brand’s pivot to making masks — www.fastcompany.com

The brand collaborated with a doctor to create a fabric mask with an insert for a HEPA filter.

Jobs!

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See you later this afternoon on Zoom, or in your inbox soon :-)

Stay safe,

@jdallcaps