In our career as a designer we are expected to grow - from a practitioner of design to a collaborator who can seamlessly work with business and technology teams. From a collaborator to a mentor who will guide young designers. From a mentor to a manager who can guide a team to success and growth. If everything goes well we can become a strategist who can contribute to the business or a design leader who has the proverbial seat at the table. This growth demands skills. It also demands smarter...

Drupad Mistry is a musician, composer and a designer. He works as a User Experience Design Specialist at McKinsey. In this episode he guides us through Sarod - his musical instrument, collaborations, inspirations, travel and of course design. There are a few things that he mentions that we should probably know about: The SarodUstad Amjad Ali KhanThe French documentary on Flamenco Music and ManganiyarsSarod Studio - A collaborative YouTube Channel

We at DesignUp have been working hard on our Deconstruct Report on the pandemic and how it has affected our design-in-tech industry. This is a long drawn out exercise with loads of data collected, interviews, stories, data visualisations and unending...

Simon Roberts is a business anthropologist. He is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of anthropology in business and the use of ethnography in corporate research, design and innovation. Early in his career Simon established Ideas Bazaar, the UK's...

Yonatan Levy has been building tech products since 2005, some of which are used by millions of people. As a product manager, UX expert, entrepreneur and executive he has led teams in industries ranging from e-commerce and fintech to social platforms and...

Giles Colborne is the founder of CX Partners and the author of Simple and Usable. Giles works on digital strategy and organisational design for major brands, worldwide. Currently, he is devising initiatives for senior management in large corporates to...

Data visualizations and creating a narrative for easy consumption are pretty complex skills. If you add the expertise of journalism to this mix you get compelling stories made with data and code. Gurman Bhatia is a data and graphic journalist with...

Last year DesignUp initiated a study on the State of Design in Technology in India and South East Asia.  This report was published and unveiled as DesignUp Deconstruct in November 2019 at the DesignUp Conference. In this episode, we talk to the research...

From a May 2020 DesignUp Circuit Webinar we invite designers to talk about their passion point or secret projects that is not necessarily their day job. In this episode, we speak to Anurag Arora, Product Designer at Uber, about his culinary pursuits....

This three-part extension of our newsletter covers Jared Spool's account of Hawaii Missile Alert from UX Thailand and how that connects to Jim Carrey's new book. Jay Dutta, Founder, and Curator at DesignUp, explains how the design festival and...