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DUp 🧵 Issue 151 > Threads, Humanity, Originality and AI, Nike's Design System, DesignUp Clinics, Eye Candy & tools!

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DesignUp Conf
July 19, 2023

It’s already halfway through 2023, and DesignUp has hosted five events so far - the latest being the DesignUp x Shell Experience Design Mixer a few weeks ago! We thoroughly enjoyed the insightful discussions and the engaging audience - if you missed it, catch the sketchnotes below!

Meanwhile, DesignUp Clinics kicked off to a fantastic start. For individuals as well as companies, the Clinics are an opportunity to review work, review strategies, intents, and plans, as well as engage in career discussions. Both mentors and mentees found them rich and meaningful, as you’ll see below. The next one is coming up on 29th July - sign up in the form below.

📣 DesignUp Updates

Sketchnotes from DesignUp x Shell Experience Design Mixer

Here’s a great post from Rasagy Sharma, click through to see his ✨ marvellous sketchnotes ✨

🧙‍♀️ DesignUp Clinic Updates from June

“An hour-long DesignUp Clinic session with my mentors did not just clear my doubts, but also gave me frameworks and insights that'll help me throughout my career”, said one happy mentee.

“Do not make mistakes that I’ve made, make newer ones.” Reassuring words from Shirish Andhare, one of my mentors in the DesignUp Clinic session, while Parameswaran Venkataraman introduced me to frameworks to use throughout my career…a big thank you to them for taking out time to show me the light!”

“The interaction with Dr William Ramey and Soo Basu never felt like an artificially organized masterclass or mentoring session, the conversation turned into an organic journey of two seniors coming into support a junior as if it was only yesterday we had bid adieu.”

⏰ Sign up for DesignUp Clinic for July!

Held every month, DesignUp Clinic helps you discover answers, uncover clarity and find new shores - and this time it’s specially for startups of all sizes and for mature orgs. If you’re looking for some specific answers or reviews, or grappling with a complex set of problems then join us for long in-depth, personalised sessions! Take a look at all the mentors:

🌟 Thomas Küber, co-founder at Futur2, is an experienced global design leader.

🌟 Ajeet Kandachar brings ~20 yrs of experience in marketing, product adoption, and market expansion.

🌟 Katja Forbes, global Sr. leader at Standard Chartered Bank, and a specialist in CX, UX & emerging tech. Catch her perspective on Speculative Futures.

🌟 Sharan Grandigae, Founder, CDO@Arcana Network, with 20 yrs of design leadership experience. Here’s his intro on Web 3.0 for designers.

🌟 Saibal Datta, Partner & Chief Experience Designer at GDD. He has helped startups and enterprises like Adobe, Flipkart, MakeMyTrip, Samsung turn ideas into reality.

🌟 Sandeep Karmarkar, a seasoned design leader at Uber. Listen to his thoughts on designing careers on the ADS podcast.

🌟 Navneet Nair, Head of design at PhonePe. Catch his TedX talk here!

✅ Don’t wait - Review strategies, intents, and plans at the DesignUp Clinic in July. Sign up here!

🌏️ Around the Web

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Threads, like Bluesky, feels like a new service for people who liked what Twitter used to be. Hundreds of millions of people liked what Twitter once was, and what it aspired to be. Mastodon feels like a service for people who hated Twitter.

John Gruber, tech blogger & designer

Threads and the Social/Communications Map

Understanding Threads and its threat to Twitter means understanding the current landscape of social media.

The Genius Strategy Behind Threads' Meteoric Success Is the One Thing Everyone Hates.

The success of Threads--so far--is largely due to two very intentional decisions Instagram made about how you first experience Threads.

In this fabulous talk on generative AI and originality, Eric Hu takes us on his creative journey, his obsession with tech, and asks, “if images might perhaps be discovered, is art discovered? Absolutely not.”

Artificial Intelligence & Humanity

Dan Mall on what he uses AI for: “If I embrace the role of AI as an accident generator, then I’d gladly give it all the areas of my life where accidents have little penalty: the parts that have little to do with my humanity.”

🧰 Your Toolkit

👟 Instrument Agency on Designing Nike’s Digital Design System

“Our journey to the Nike design system began over a decade ago when we were first tapped to re-imagine Nike.com.”

♿ The Trillion-Dollar Market that CFOs Ignore

How to sell digital accessibility to your CFO!

How Names of People Influence Ontologies on the Web

How do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications of those differences on the design of forms, databases, ontologies, etc. for the Web?

💖 Eye Candy

Ukrainian Art Studio Agrafka

Duo of artists Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv - book authors, illustrators, graphic designers, are based in Lviv, Ukraine. This is the poster they designed for the 2023 International Book Arsenal Festival.

Contemporary Posters from Iran

Iranian graphic design arose as a discipline in its own right in the 1960s. With their poetic, symbolically coded visuals, the posters reflect the creative license that comes into play in times of political turmoil.

gif by @canek

🍀 Stay calm and stay curious,