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DUp 173 🌧️ DUp24 Speaker Reveals, AltCwithJD + Guest Ed > Words to live by from Kurosawa, Thelonius Monk, and more!

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DesignUp Conf
July 15, 2024

🌧️ Hello readers! As the monsoon continues, the answers to the much-awaited question, "Who's speaking at DesignUp 2024" are here! And we're excited to kick off our Speaker reveals!

🌤️ DUp attendees are no stranger to Krish Ashok, his fabulous talk at DUp Conf 22 - and his much loved, followed and shared Insta channel MasalaLab. If you missed him in DUp22, Krish is returning this year with an even more fascinating talk and more deeper insights combining food, design, engineering and human ingenuity…

Krish the Global Head of AI.Cloud Advisory & Consulting at TCS, with an astounding 25+ years of experience - but also a musician and the author of 'Masala Lab: The Science of Indian Cooking'.

🌤️ We’re also super-psyched to have Simon Roberts speaking at DUPConf this year. Simon is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of business anthropology, and the use of ethnography in corporate research, design and innovation. He's also the author of 'The Power of Not Thinking: How Our Bodies Learn and Why We Should Trust Them'. Fun fact - Simon speaks Hindi, has travelled across India when ux-research was still a gurgling infant.

Co-founder & Partner at Stripe Partners.

✨✨But that’s not all, we have a fun, high-energy speaker joining us, reveal coming soon. In the meantime make a guess via our social media channels and the first 3 right ones get a whopping 33% discount on The Conf Pass (Just-in-Time variant) ✨✨ 

Guess the mystery speaker….

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💖 Guest Editor Surbhi Bindlish Shares Her Words To Live By

Design leader Surbhi Bindlish first attended DesignUp Conference in 2017 and has been coming back ever since.

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“Apart from being an annual ritual for design teams, DesignUp is also a personal ritual for me - where I meet friends old and new, exchange ideas and taking home thoughts for self reflection.”

Surbhi Bindlish

“When I was starting out as a young designer, I really looked up to the great designers, artists, musicians, and philosophers that came before us. Their thoughts gave me direction in life and career. More than a decade later, these words still continue to guide me as I uncover nuances that I previously missed.”

First Things First: Design Is History

“On alignment in career, I look towards the 1960s manifesto: First Things First. Designers who have worked at the crossroads of business, people, and ideas have often faced the dilemma of using their creative skills for commercial purposes or addressing important societal issues. This is something I often think about, I think you do too.”

Thelonious Monk’s 25 Tips for Musicians

“On advice on working in teams, I look towards a Note - I interpret these direct and witty insights by Monk as advice to embrace life's rhythm, design with simplicity, support others, innovate authentically, master basics, and use restraint. As with music, these notes might hit you differently. ;)”

Akira Kurosawa to Ingmar Bergman: “A Human Is Not Really Capable of Creating Really Good Works Until He Reaches 80”

“On just the sheer length of careers, I look towards a letter: Kurosawa's Letter to Bergman. I still have a 25 year career in front of me, if I were to take Kurosawa’s word - it’s much longer. Sometimes it’s easy to get daunted by the future, but we all are only becoming a better us - a better craftsperson, a more rounded human, a wise story teller. When Kurosawa wrote to a recently retired Bergman, I think he wrote to all of us.”

Return to Tipasa: Albert Camus

“On mustering resilience, I look towards an essay: Camus's - Return to Tipasa. Before I knew frameworks for developing resilience, I had Camus's Return to Tipasa. His reflections serve as a powerful reminder to believe in our inner "invincible summer" even in the midst of winter.”

6 Questions/6 Rules From George Orwell

“As designers, we are responsible for crafting our communications—to both the users we design for and the people we design with. Early in my career, I often used Orwell’s questions to deconstruct my thoughts to the core and his rules to try and word them clearly and concisely.”

Dieter Rams: Ten Principles For Good Design

On improving discernment I look towards the god: Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles for Good Design. IMO a designer is only as good as their eye. They must first see a problem and then envision a viable solution. A thoughtful product is, therefore, simply the result of a series of good design decisions. You don’t need an introduction to 👆🏼

Thanks Surbhi! One of her favourite DUp talks is by Justin Bolognino, on creating transformative experiences.

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