DesignUp 2019
as the organisers put it
DesignUp - the definitive design-in-tech event is back in 2019 and it's a Festival
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Documenting Design & more | Hardik Pandya | 25m |
Argues that design handoffs must ship a small, consistent documentation bundle so engineers stop guessing and product moves faster; recommends shipping… | ||
| When statistics become stories | Gurman Bhatia | 22m |
Argues that raw census and crime counts become useful only after cleaning, cultural framing and visual mapping, showing a workflow that turns messy registers… | ||
| The Value Design brings to the Table | Dhruv Saxena | 20m |
Builds a lightweight care platform: a simple mobile app plus call-center workflow and an electronic medical record that ties to a unique patient ID and SMS… | ||
| Amplify | Dave Malouf | 22m |
Argues that design’s unique value is as an amplifying verb not a siloed output and proposes concrete changes: replace uniform two‑week cadences with… | ||
| Turbo Charging your Product-Market Fit | Chitrak Gangrade | 19m |
Booking.com authors describe a playbook for accelerating product-market fit by running dozens of low-cost experiments and launching many tiny variants to learn… | ||
| The Accidental (Design) Leader | Andy Budd | 28m |
Many new design leaders find authority alone fails and must learn people skills and systems thinking: hiring eats up to 80% of time, new hires often leave… | ||
| Creating Space for Remote Work | Stu Smith | 26m |
Companies report concrete wins: Aetna saves $78M a year by cutting office space, Atlassian finds five times more candidates and plans threefold growth in… | ||
| The Next Billion users and the rise of Irrational Design | Payal Arora | 25m |
Classroom exercise finds students propose coupling Intel's TrailGuard with armed drones to kill poachers, sparking an empathy gap argument and ethical warning… | ||
| Being a Design Leader | Param Venkataraman | 29m |
A practical playbook for senior designers who must prove value: tie design to company purpose by building labs and products rather than preaching — e.g… | ||
| From Science to Self-Knowledge; the evolution of design thinking | Karen Faith | 25m |
Claims that design thinking improves when preceded by self-knowledge, adding a step to the scientific-method → design-thinking chain; uses a concrete method… | ||
| 3-Dimensional Connections | Alysha Naples | 30m |
Argues mixed reality replaces screens and design must serve bodies, minds and hearts rather than only sell measurable data, illustrated by the form and essence… | ||
| Runner-ups | Akash Chandan | 28m |
Classifies gig workers into 4 worker types and maps the decision points where platform algorithms shape earnings and behavior, arguing for a humans and… | ||
| Artisinal Intelligence | Simone Rebaudengo | 34m |
Compares Apollo 11’s 733 KB guidance code to modern bloated software and argues designers should treat ML as a craft, not magic. Describes a working mechanical… | ||
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