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DUp 🚀 Issue 155 > DesignUp's BIG event alert!! AI-AI-and-some-more-AI (and some not-AI eye candy too)

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October 09, 2023

We have a bunch of exciting stuff, ideas and inspiration packed in this issue. But first - we have DesignUp’s Big Event Alert - and it’s unlike anything you’ve experienced before. Read on…

🚀 DesignUp Big Event Alert!

It’s here, finally. We’ve have been getting multiple questions on “when’s the next DesignUp?” and we have an answer - November 24, (Friday) 2023 in Namma Bengaluru.

What’s #StepUpTo24 you ask? 2020 to 2023 have been a roller coaster ride for most of us, partners and friends and colleagues: rise & fall, losses and gains, twists and turns - of health, jobs, money, career & more. Design is an expression for many of the visible and invisible forces responsible for these changes. This event helps you connect the dots, fill in the gaps, find inspiration, expand your network and #StepUpTo24 with pizzazz!!!

#StepUpTo24 is provocative, peppy, packed with insights. Unlike your UI/UX-conferences-as-usual. 24 speakers and experts, 24 insights and ideas, 24 takes and takeaways and all packaged in less than 24 hours. And it’s being designed for being affordability. Early Bird ticket sales start in less than a week (we may be ready by Friday the 13th, fingers crossed - you heard it here first).

🌏️ Around the Web

Meanwhile, AI is everywhere, and how are companies adopting it? Small companies might leverage advantages typically reserved for big companies with the help of AI, says Scott Belsky, but what’s behind the low adoption of generative AI in enterprises? In these turbulent times, Om Malik remembers Steve Jobs, and Reid Hoffman discusses a humanist point of view on generative AI on the On Being podcast.

🎧 When Will AI Hit the Enterprise?

Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi delve into the challenges in procuring AI for enterprises, enterprise security needs, and the ownership conundrum, among other things.

🎧 Generative AI, and What It Means to Be (More) Human

Reid Hoffman and Krista Tippet ponders life with generative AI. What is it calling us to, as human beings? And what is our agency to shape it to human purpose?

What Would Steve Jobs Have Thought of Our Industry Now?

Om Malik posits that in these times of tectonic change, as societies suddenly accelerate beyond our human perception, we need someone to contextualize this transition in a way that is less self-serving, less dystopian, filled with empathy, and most importantly — human.

An 8th grade student’s perspective on AI and education

The education system has evolved towards teaching critical thinking skills, and the ability to express one's thoughts and ideas effectively, skills that will still be needed eons into the future. Does AI require us to rethink how we learn?

🧰 Your Toolkit

How to AI

Insightful approaches to deploying generative AI for brands and corporations from Rei Inamoto.

🎧 How to Save Time Using ChatGPT at Work

Using insights from the recognized psychology resources, productivity coach Donna McGeorge shares modern time management strategies using ChatGPT to enhance the time we spend in our workplace.

Five Traits of High Impact Founders: A Guide to Assessing Strengths and Weaknesses

Psychologist and co-founder of Coa, Dr. Emily Anhalt, unpacks the five traits of high-impact founders — and how the very traits that make a founder successful can also hold them back.

💖 Eye Candy

What is Buddhism? Visualised by Information is Beautiful

An esoteric infographic exploring and visualising intriguing central aspects and key beliefs of Buddhism.

Illustrations for The Telegraph

Beautiful whimsical illustrations by Fran Labuschagne

Designed by the agency The First The Last, the website If An A-Bomb Falls used animation, illustrations, and the presentation of the A-bomb history, to convey the consequences and horrors that can follow the use of nuclear weapons.

gif by @escooler

🍀 Stay connected, stay inspired and see you soon!