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DesignUp Newsletter 🚀 Issue #142 > 📣 📣 Leadership Journeys for you, Algorithms for Strategic Laziness, Eatsplorations, Simulation Sketchbook + more!

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February 13, 2023

So much went on last week - Microsoft vs Google in the Search Engine wars, layoffs, a failure of imagination in UX, and also, a huge new rocket system 🚀

Meanwhile, in this edition, Krish Ashok’s ‘Algorithms For Strategic Laziness’ will have you in splits! We are all still talking about AI - is it a feature, or is it like Play-Doh? Exploring the boundaries, we stumbled upon Simulation Sketchbook, an online exhibition which suggests that, technology is not magic being created in Silicon Valley, but like art, it is made through a series of sketches and explorations. This reminded us of the work of Bill Buxton - and the 4 different types of prototypes that we use in our design projects.

And finally, announcing DesignUp School’s Leadership Series - to be held in March in Bangalore. Get details below!

📣 DesignUp.School’s Leadership Series starts in 3 weeks!

The Leadership Series starts with two fundamental immersive Masterclasses, and two distinctive but interconnected Leadership journeys - one inside and one to building bridges and partnerships outside: Managing Strategic Partnerships by Kathleen Schroeter, and Leading Mindfully by Jay Dutta. The 2 x one-day Masterclass also has a networking dinner with Design Leaders. These classes are limited to 25 seats and with 3 weeks to go, they're filling up fast! Get more details at bit.ly/DUpLead.

Seats are filling fast @DesignUp.School’s Masterclasses

Two Masterclasses over Friday & Saturday, March 3-4, in Bangalore, thoughtfully designed to complement each other - to enhance your skill sets to manage teams, expectations, stakeholders, and most importantly yourself.

🌏️ Around the web

He cooks, he blogs, he produces his own music, and he's a global tech leader…but how does he manage to find the time to do all these things? The answer lies in strategic laziness! At #DesignUp2022, Krish Ashok talks about 'Algorithms For Strategic Laziness' and how this concept can be used in various aspects of life. He explains how algorithms can be used to be more creative and how they can help structure and simplify a task.

AI is creating the Play-Doh internet: Mark Hurst

“As AI generators continue to gain traction, we risk finding ourselves in a Play-Doh internet – full of extruded content of varying quality, squeezed together from unknown sources, while the companies responsible claim no liability for any errors their extruders might have plopped out.”

AI is a feature, not a product: Tom Creighton

“AI tools right now are feature phones: they’re showing up in a bunch of extremely weird form factors with wildly different capabilities and use cases…We are massively overfitting to fast and cheap at the expense of good.”

Visit: Simulation Sketchbook

An online exhibition of explorations and prototypes of art pieces by various artists, demonstrating that conceptualising technology needs to start with sketches of ideas.

🧰 Your Toolkit

When Bill Buxton talks about “sketches” you know he is not referring to drawings. In the video clip below, he explains the difference between a sketch and a prototype, and how “sketching is a process, a feedback loop to gain new knowledge.”

This image from his book Sketching User Experiences illustrates how we can use sketching to explore in a structured manner:

Fig.150 from Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton

Four Types of Prototypes

Building on the classic paper by Apple designers Houde and Hill, Jorge Arango explains how to use these different types of prototypes in our day-to-day work.

💖 Eye Candy

Eatsploration’s Delicious and Intriguing Visuals

Strange and surreal marketing for Övnew, a conceptual restaurant that explores the idea of “chromatic eatsploration”.

The Art of Japanese Portable Record Players

Beautiful Japanese designs from the golden age of record players.

The fascinating illustration of Christian Gralingen

German illustrator Christian Gralingen is a multiple-award winner who is particularly inspired by the imagery of scientific publications, construction plans, and technical drawings.

gif by @printthelight

🍀 Stay calm and stay curious,