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DUp 🚀 Issue 154 > Remote work: Charms & Perils, Pixels & Possibilities, Building Threads, How to be design-led, and more!

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September 18, 2023

Happy Monday, readers! This time, here’s a bunch of design awesomeness to bring some inspiration to your week - centered around remote work, its charms and perils, the engineering infra behind Threads, and RIP Molly Holzschlag, pioneer of open web standards, who passed away a couple of weeks ago. ✨✨ And best of all, Jay shares some links that informed his talk at UX Lighthouse! ✨✨

🚀 Updates From the DesignUp Community

UX Lighthouse wrapped up in Pune a couple of weeks ago! In case you couldn’t be there, Rasagy did a workshop and Jay presented the opening keynote of the 1st edition: The UX Odyssey - from Pixels to Possibilities. Here’s a sneak peek »

The UX Odyssey: From Pixels to Possibilities

So you want to be a UX Designer? Jay’s talk traced a circuitous route across 120 years to today - speculating about what the future of the UX profession holds, creating the frameworks to ask the questions that would define our evolution, and of what we today call UX.

Of the many references that informed Jay’s talk, the 3 key were -

DUp Deconstruct: Understanding the State of Design-In-Tech, in India & SE Asia

DesignUp DeConstruct turns the spotlight on Design in India – within tech-led organisations and startups, and in companies embracing ‘digital’. “Many of the findings and the 'prophecies' continue to be relevant today”, says Jay.

Ben Evan's Thoughtful Reflection on Working with AI: AI and the Automation of Work

ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other waves of automation of the last 200 years? What does it mean for employment? Disruption? Coal consumption?

Visual Capitalist

A look at our world through slicing data (and Jay spends a lot of his time here).

🌏️ Around the Web

Back at #DesignUp2019, Stu Smith made an eerily prophetic, pre-pandemic case for fully remote work, and touched upon how it benefited not just the workers but also their families. In his talk, Stu focuses on how organizations can make space for effective remote work and how remote workers can compensate for the things they miss out on - like "water cooler" conversations and social relationships in the office.

Listen to The Challenges of Remote Work From 37signals Co-founders

37signals founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson sit down to discuss the challenges that come with remote work, and how it’s certainly not for all companies. Listen to their insights on collaboration across time zones, creating async connection, and the benefits of remote work for both employees and employers.

Building Meta’s Threads App

The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week. How did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense launch?

RIP Molly Holzschlag, one of the first web gurus, pioneer of open web standards and accessibility. Here’s the story of how it all happened:

The History of Internet Explorer and Web Standards

How Molly Holzschlag pioneered web standards in the early days of the web and collaborated with Bill Gates at an early Microsoft roundtable event.

🧰 Your Toolkit

How To Be A Design-Led Company

In this talk from 2017, Ashleigh Axios from Automattic, shares how “design-led” or design-centric” companies have maintained significant stock market advantage, outperforming the S&P by an extraordinary 211%, over the last decade.

Trust, Autonomy, and the Relationship with Your Boss

Here are five recommendations for cultivating a good relationship with your boss while working remotely.

💖 Eye Candy

Tata Neu App from Liquidink Design

Liquidink collaborated with Tata Neu to build a unique vision for their app, reimagining the experience on shopping online, with a distinctive color palette and rich illustrations.

Praiseworthy Redesign from Halo Lab

Halo Lab redesigned Praiseworthy, the employee recognition platform, creating on a sleek and efficient UX with a fresh color palette and friendly illustrations.

Gif by @deadlyie

Stay curious, stay healthy,

@soosixty & @jdallcaps