What awaits the Designer? Human Computer Interaction: HCI, as it is known among design professionals, has so far been driven by the Human in HCI. Along comes AI. Who drives it now? What is the tectonic shift in the role of the Designer? With this AI-driven disruption, will the Designer survive, or thrive? How will Design itself change? What are some specific new processes that will emerge in the human-centric approach to Design?
Ask about the future from the world-renowned futurist of Design: Apala Lahiri. She is the co-founder of HFI where she also leads its research into the future of UX and has been published in the World Future Society Journal. Her innovative and pioneering techniques have benefitted global giants to develop exciting new concepts and products across domains. She specializes in creating UX strategy for organizations who are looking to provide breakthrough UX to their customers and other stakeholders. She has developed a vast array of user research techniques that help understand UX in diverse cultures and economies across the world.
Apala graduated in Math from Delhi University, started her career in programming, almost immediately pivoted to design, holds an MSc with distinction in User Interface Design from London Guildhall University, and tops it with a Ph.D in Design.
Welcome to The Chat Bubble
As a new initiative by DesignRev, we expand and evolve the Design Revolution we kickstarted from India in Sep 2014 through The Chat Bubble. Industry experts from diverse backgrounds and specializations are invited in these free and live online video-chats to share their insights on Design with the community.
In Episode 02, Apala Lahiri is going to be here with us, back from the future, and you need to know from her what’s going to happen to you and your work as a Designer.
Registration is quick and free, but is mandatory to receive an invite into the moderated Zoom or other videoconf meeting. Since we have limited invites, first registration and then also attendance to the live event is on a first-come-first-serve basis. So please register immediately. On successful registration you will receive an invite as well as your login credentials via email.
So go ahead. Don’t just draw a chat bubble. Be in The Chat Bubble.
Will AI steal your job as a designer? What happens to all the skills you invested your time, money, and energy in with the AI disruption? Will startups and enterprises lay off designers, will the team size of the design department shrink dramatically? What happens to your dreams of a career?
Find answers to the toughest questions gnawing at you at this moment. Ask those questions we forgot to ask. From Karthi Sabbaram. With her 80,000+ hours of user experience design, 200+ digital products, 20+ domains, 500+ master classes, 12+ brands and countless experiments: If Kathi’s professional life is represented as a dashboard, that is what it will sound like.
Karthi is currently empowering billions to achieve more at Microsoft India, in her role in Design Leadership. She is a technologist turned into a multi-disciplinary product designer focused on human cognition and behaviors. Before building for billions, Karthi spent one full decade in entrepreneurship building remote product design schools, nonprofit maker ecosystems, product design agencies and no-code accelerators. Karthi earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics, a Masters in Human-Computer Interaction and an Executive MBA in Product Leadership.
Welcome to The Chat Bubble
As a new initiative by DesignRev, we expand and evolve the Design Revolution we kickstarted from India in Sep 2014 through The Chat Bubble. Industry experts from diverse backgrounds and specializations are invited in these free and live online video-chats to share their insights on Design with the community.
Registration is quick and free, but is mandatory to receive an invite into the moderated Zoom or other videoconf meeting. Since we have limited invites, first registration and then also attendance to the live event is on a first-come-first-serve basis. So please register immediately. On successful registration you will receive an invite as well as your login credentials via email.
So go ahead. Don’t just draw a chat bubble. Be in The Chat Bubble.
Ask us to ping you once as a reminder. Tap the button below.:
Delight Your Customers with Innovation and User-Experience UX Design
Don’t you wish your products were truly world-class from india, especially when it comes to Design? Now you can.
Unlock explosive creativity within you. Because India’s most-respected UX Design and DesignThinking workshop just went live. For the 45th time.
You don’t need any previous background in art or tech or design. And for those who do have some, take your skill to the next level with mind-expanding insights and ideas.
No matter what your background, newbie to expert, and developer or tech or product or design or entrepreneur, you will go back ready to kickstart a revolution in your work and career Monday morning.
You can make the world • more beautiful • more intelligent • more user-friendly • more creative • more delightful.
Learn how to make UX Design for:
Mobile apps
Web-design
Enterprise software Smart
Speakers: Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomePod
Internet of Things (IoT)
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This Dance Meditation event helps you unlock explosive creativity within you. Making your life and work:
More delightful
More beautiful
More intelligent
More joyous
And yes, definitely a lilttle more crazy and fun.
Combined with meditative techniques, dance becomes a great transformational force. One that dissolves creative blocks, fires up your imagination, puts you back in touch with your feelings, and gets that creative flow gushing through you again.
But all that is secondary. If you go deep, dance is the most direct path with which to experience a sense of ecstatic liberation, and get that priceless taste of bliss and freedom.
The techniques of meditation used here are from ‘Awaken Your Creativity Through Design-Think‘ which is a 4-day/3-nights Meditation and Design Retreat. Conducted earlier in July 2019, that was a mind-blowing experience for participants, get a glimpse of it here.
Peak At The Agenda
Each meditation is followed by moments of rest and stillness. You may not only catch your breath, but also find yourself moving deeper into gaps of stillness and peace.
Here’s what you need to pack for your peak experience
Comfortable Yoga and Dance stretch-clothing so you have full freedom in your movements
A separate and clean pair of slip-on Yoga, Kungfu, Dance shoes, only to be worn inside the meditation hall. Please use another pair of shoes for your commute
A yoga mat as well as a warm shawl
Your own bottle of water, non-plastic, made of ceramic, steel, mitti-cool, or whatever allows all life forms to continue their dance around the Earth
Sense of humour and laughter
Any gesture or thing with which you can share your love is welcome
Tao 99 is a serene, meditative, green, and beautiful centre built on a farm in Ghitorni, in the centre of Delhi. Tao 99 is easily accessible by Delhi Metro. You may also drive down or catch a taxi via Uber, Ola, or others. The address is:
Tao 99
Farm No.100, Silver Oaks Lane 3
Opposite Pillar No 146
Mehrauli-Gurgaon Rd
New Delhi, Delhi 110030
Directions:
By Car:
Go Beyond Ghitorni station, take the Arjan Garh u-turn so you can come back to metro Pillar # 146
Take Silver Oak avenue on the left
Keep going straight for about 2 km crossing Baba’s dhabha at the cross road on your left. Cross Chintan Vatika
When you reach the T-point take a left and go straight ignoring any right turns
Tao 99 is the building on the right
Total distance from Arjan Garh metro station: 3.3 Km
By Metro:
Get off at the Arjan Garh metro station.
Catch an auto or taxi and follow the directions as mentioned above, starting by heading towards metro Pillar #146
Total distance from Arjan Garh metro station: 3.3 Km
Eligibility
Above the age of 18
From any background, under-graduate onward
No prior dance skills required. Anybody can dance!
Need not have any demonstrative creative skills
Physically healthy and fit as this is filled with physical activities especially dancing, and various other movements
Medium of communication: English
You must have an open mind and a receptive heart, and be willing to explore light, fun-filled meditative techniques.
Children between 15 to 18 may be allowed on a very special case, with a parent, if the young adult shows their own inclination and intent and freedom to participate
If participating with a relative, companion, lover, friend, or colleague, the other person must fill in their own independent participation form, and we reserve the right to decline if required
Each participant must stay through the entire duration of the event so that the group bonding and energy among people grows stronger
Please read through the Terms and Conditions for additional points
Update: Look who’s attending so far. Who do you identify with in this tribe?
Participation Fee
Rs 700 per participant. To be paid online
Note: Limited Registrations. On a first-come first-served basis. Expect registrations to sell-out days or even weeks before the event-date
Fee includes:
The facilitator fees for conducting the ‘Awaken Your Creativity Through Dance’ program
Each participant must be respectful, sincere, and sensitive towards others
All rules for guests at Tao 99 Farm must be respected and followed
Tao 99 Farm reserves the right to request a guest to leave if they are found to violate the rules of the venue
It is mandatory for all guests to carry a valid Photo ID and address proof
No firearms, weapons, drugs, alcohol, allowed
The fees must be paid 100% in advance, by electronic transfer, against the invoice raised directly by us
Fees once paid will not be refunded, whether before, during, or after the retreat
If for any reason, we cancel or reschedule this event before commencement, fees will be refunded in full if the new schedule is not suitable to you
Offer subject to force majeure conditions
We hold no liability, indemnification, or responsibility for any loss, theft, injury, or any type of harm
All disputes subject to Delhi jurisdiction only
Four Steps to Dance Meditation
This retreat is exclusive and carefully curated. With participants limited to between 8 to 20 maximum, numbers will intentionally tend to be on the lower side. Therefore:
Step 1: Check to see if you pass the eligibility criterion.
Step 2: If so, please fill in our your details in the form here, which may also ask you some basic and easy-easy questions such as your favourite dance music 🙂
Step 3: If you get through our selection criterion, we will set up an informal telephone-interview and/or a video-chat with you. Usually lasts 15 minutes.
Step 4: If selected, your name will be added to the short-listed candidates. Bookings are usually first-come-first-served primarily, and then processed through other filters.If you get through you will have to make your payment via online transfer promptly.
Tap Your Way To Bliss
Come on! Jump into the Dance Meditation. Tap the button below and get ready to transform your life through creativity and celebration:
Delight Your Customers with Innovation and User-Experience Design
Don’t you wish your products were truly world-class from india, especially when it comes to Design? Now you can. India’s most-respected UX Design workshop just went live. For the 43rd time. Ain’t that somethin’!
You don’t need any previous background in art or tech or design. And for those who do have some, take your skill to the next level with mind-expanding insights and ideas.
No matter what your background, newbie to expert, and developer or tech or product or design or entrepreneur, you will go back ready to kickstart a revolution in your work and career Monday morning.
You can make the world • more beautiful • more intelligent • more user-friendly • more creative • more delightful.
Learn how to make UX Design for:
Mobile apps
Web-design
Enterprise software
Internet of Things (IoT)
Go ahead, earn that certification. For more details which answer your how, why, what, where, and how much for the tickets, please click here:
The answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything to do with UX Design is 42.
You ask how? By learning how to delight your customers with innovation and User-Experience (UX) Design, that is truly world-class from India. Because India’s most-respected UX Design workshop just went live. For the 42nd time. Ain’t that somethin’!
You don’t need any previous background in art or tech or design, and for those who do, take your skill to the next level with mind-expanding insights and ideas.
No matter what your background, newbie to expert, and developer or tech or product or design or entrepreneur, you will go back ready to kickstart a revolution in your work and career Monday morning.
You can make the world • more beautiful • more intelligent • more user-friendly • more creative • more delightful.
Learn how to make UX Design for:
Mobile apps
Web-design
Enterprise software
Internet of Things (IoT)
Go ahead, earn that certification. For more details which answer your how, why, what, where, and how much for the tickets, please click here:
Update: This Design workshop event has passed. To receive a single email that notifies you of the next Design workshop or event, please fill in this simple and easy form
India’s most-respected UX Design workshop is Live. Learn how to delight your customers with UX Design and Innovation that is truly world-class from India.
No previous background in art or tech or design required, and for those who do, take your skill to the next level with mind-expanding insights and ideas.
No matter what your background, newbie to expert, and developer or tech or product or design or entrepreneur, you will go back ready to kickstart a revolution in your work and career Monday morning.
You can make the world • more beautiful • more intelligent • more user-friendly • more creative • more delightful.
Learn how to make UX Design for:
Mobile apps
Web-design
Enterprise software
Internet of Things (IoT)
Go ahead, earn that certification. For more details which answer your how, why, what, where, and how much for the tickets, please click here:
Update: This Design workshop has passed. To receive a single email that notifies you of the next Design workshop or event, please fill in this simple and easy form
Over 200 startups mentored. 40th workshop in 4 years. Each one starts with the fundamental principle: Good design is not about how it looks. Or even about how it works. Good design is about how playful it is. You take the ordinary. And make it extraordinary
You can make the world • more beautiful • more intelligent • more user-friendly • more creative • more delightful.
You don’t need any prior artistic or technical qualifications to dive into User-Experience (UX) Design. Learn how to make UX Design for:
Mobile apps
Web-design
Enterprise software
Internet of Things (IoT)
For more details which answer your how, why, what, where, and how much for the tickets, please click here: