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DUp 🚀 #143 💫 Bounce Back Bootcamp, Local Community Leaders, Kriti Monga's talk, Annoying designs and Horrible bosses!

DUp 🚀 #143 💫 Bounce Back Bootcamp, Local Community Leaders, Kriti Monga's talk, Annoying designs and Horrible bosses!

DesignUp Conf
February 27, 2023

This week, we have two big announcements from DesignUp: The upcoming Bounce Back Bootcamp, a day-long event in Bangalore in March, and the DesignUp Local Community Leaders in Singapore, Pune, and Chennai. Get details below! 📣📣

Also in this issue, watch the much-awaited talk from Kriti Monga on living a designer’s life, from last year’s DesignUp Conf. Read the provocative essay on the vanishing designer in the age of systemic efficiency, and the inimitable Brad Frost on Design Systems and AI. There’s lots of useful tools, including a Ux Deep-dive, eye candy, and even a little something to make you laugh and cry! Read on 👉🏻👉🏻

📣 Mark your calendars

How do you survive, thrive and bounce back, in today’s uncertain environment, amidst economic downturn, job losses and tech disruption? DesignUp Conference brings you 💫 The Bounce Back Bootcamp 💫 a one-day event dedicated to uncovering tips, tactics and strategies for surviving and succeeding in an uncertain world. More details 👉🏻 here 👉🏻.

Join a select group of stellar speakers who have experienced and dealt with uncertainty and chaos themselves - failures, career transitions, career switching - and found growth and fulfilment in different forms!

The event comes at a super-subsidised-minimum-fee, and seats are limited to 80 only. This includes all talks, panels, learning plus networking over teas, coffees and full-spread lunch at a 5-star venue in the heart of Bangalore. Expect a stellar speaker line up, thoughtful content and a full menu!

Check out details and the schedule here - DesignUp Bounce Back Bootcamp

📣 DesignUp Local Community Leaders

Say hello to the first set of DesignUp Local Community Leaders:

📍Singapore Poon Wen Ang, Design Director & Leadership at Aleph-Labs. Poon is a hands-on Design Leader who wears the multiple hats of teacher, artist, strategist, and engineer.

📍Chennai Akta Paneri, User Experience Lead at Spendflo. Akta is an award-winning UX Engineer, and a dedicated mentor for younger designers, as well as an avid motorcycle rider, filmmaker, photographer, and painter.

📍Pune Saibal Datta, Co-founder and Chief Experience Designer of GDD. Saibal is a visual storyteller, relentless problem solver, design mentor, and evangelist, with over 18 years of experience in e-commerce, banking, telecommunications, and software products.

We're super excited to have them onboard! Stay tuned for more updates on the first local chapter meet-ups happening across these cities soon.

🌏️ Around the Web

At last year's #DesignUp, Kriti Monga told us about how important it is to play and make things with your hands - sometimes, a lot more important than just being at a desk all day. Take a whiff of 'Living A Designer's Life' now on our Youtube channel.

Visual Designer Christine Zhang on Working with Studio Ghibli

Christine shares her experience working on the visual design of a mobile digital experience based on Studio Ghibli’s classic film, Howl’s Moving Castle.

The Vanishing Designer

A provocative piece on the rise of a generation of designers who only take risk-free and success-guaranteed steps towards the inevitable local maxima of design monotony.

Design Systems in the Time of AI: Brad Frost

It's been absolutely wild to witness the rise of the new crop of AI tools. This moment feels equally exciting and terrifying, but given humans' track record of driving promising technologies off the rails, I'm erring on the side of terrified until (hopefully) proven wrong.

🧰 Your Toolkit

Creativity vs Efficiency

Listen to this podcast episode on why inefficiency is a strength when it comes to making remarkable creative work.

Brainstorming in Reverse

Reverse brainstorming is an unconventional technique for problem-solving and idea generation.

Ethical Alternatives to Revenue-Generating Dark Patterns

Avoiding Deception and Building Trust: The Power of Ethical Revenue Generation with Light Patterns

Bharat UX deep-dive!
I did a deep dive into @getlokalapp's onboarding in this week's UX audit series. Lokal is a hyperlocal regional news aggregator app.
I even spiced things up with a new interactive format. Don't miss out. Links 👇
#UXaudit#Lokal#BharatUX#TheIndiaNotes
— Dharmesh Ba (@dharmeshba)
3:58 AM • Feb 21, 2023

💖 Eye Candy

Get Uncomfortable with Katerina Kamprani’s Deliberately Annoying Designs

The Greek architect highlights designs we take for granted by subverting the functions of everyday objects.

David Hockney’s Immersive Art Show: ‘I hope It Gives Young People Some Ideas!’

A new exhibition lets us see the Yorkshire artist’s greatest hits – and overlooked rarities – through new eyes.

Design is in the Details with Open Circuits

Open Circuits is a photographic exploration of the beautiful design inside everyday electronics. Its stunning cross-section photography unlocks a hidden world full of elegance, subtle complexity, and wonder.

Comics: Horrible Bosses

Four cartoonists on the worst employer they have ever worked for.

Gif by @calebwood

🍀 Stay calm and stay curious,

@soosixty & @jdallcaps