Designer, do you dig this privacy hole further, or do you start filling it, now that the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP Bill 2023) is law in India? So far, startups, corporates, enterprises gleefully design without care and often with deliberate intention to harvest as much data as they can of end-users. While Design is also tapped in to cleverly hook and addict people to go on sharing even more personal and private data. Until now.
The DPDP Bill 2023 brings liability to you. As a designer, a startup co-founder, or even an enterprise, are you aware of how to strategize on design? The DPDP Bill legislation sets out your responsibilities in handling and processing digital data while upholding the rights of individuals in India. For those violating digital privacy in India, substantial penalties wil jolt you: from a minimum of Rs 50 crores to a maximum of Rs 250 crores.
So let’s give Ekta Rohra Jafri a listen.
Ekta is an award winning designer with 3iXDAs and Honorary Indigo & IF design awards in social and behavioural change. Moving on from her career stints in Design leadership roles at IBM iX, Times Group, NDTV, and others, she is currently volunteering for TechBridge a company which enables bridges to form between policy and tech innovation. She dances on the edge of these two disciplines constantly, often stepping into the territory of law, constitution and democracy to understand what is needed in design today to enable a better tomorrow. She writes speculative fiction set 15 years ahead in India and she started doing it 6 years ago. From the future vision, she extracts elements of experience which can be woven into policy and law today.
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 03, From Ekta Rohra Lahiri you clearly need to know what’s going to happen to you and your work as a Designer through the lens of the Digital Privacy Bill 2023.
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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.
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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.
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Both clients and designers need to think of this. Commerce and Conscious. Money versus Wealth. The dilemma of the Designer. Since Design is amoral, are you being responsible with its immense power? When will India have larger numbers of Designers who may not be artists?
‘Design the Designer In You’. Interviewed by Karthi Subbaraman for her brilliant podcast called Design Positive (D+ve). We discuss a tenet of Designthinking and move to creativity and mindfulness from a perspective of India
An initiative by IAMAI Internet and Mobile Association of India. Where Apala Chavan is helping shape the narrative of Design around commercial, cultural, deeper, thoughtful, emotional, spiritual dimensions
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)
UX Design and DesignThinking Workshop with Niyam Bhushan, 04 Feb 2020, Gurugram
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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.
Dance makes you erupt with joy
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.
Dance bliss at the ‘Awaken Your Creativity Through Design-Think’ meditation and design retreat, July 2019
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:
Design is getting in tune with your inner creativity
Design is #PureDoing. With this simple insight comes another. Therefore Design cannot be taught. It can only be caught. By you. Design is not a factory-process. It is not mass-manufacturing. Given the same problem or challenge, you could arrive at multiple ways of solving the challenge. Each one of you in the room could come up with their own original thinking.
Design is like the seven notes on the scale of a guitar. Anyone can play these seven notes. But those who are in tune with their inner creativity, can take those seven notes, and make music that tugs at emotional strings and exhilarate the soul. Close your eyes for a moment and think and feel your favourite music in your inner ear.
So the UX Design workshops do not really ‘teach’ anything. Each workshop is a moment in time, to inspire, to invoke, and ignite the cognitive faculty of Design embbeded in each one of us. Because a Homo Sapien is a design animal.
The experience is extrordinary. You go back bubbling with the energy of knowing that now you can solve the toughest challenges that life and work give you, using nothing more than a pencil and a piece of paper. Until that moment you may have had zero understanding of how to design a smartphone app, or an enterprise software. Yet within just 8 hours, yes, eight hours, you’ll know how to think in Design. How to use a magical mix of creativity and common-sense to create an experience that will delight your clients and your boss.
Anybody can learn how to Design a smartphone app or an enterprise software. All you need to do is to step into the hall. And allow me to tune in your strings of creativity and innovation.
Wrap your head around Brand Design at this free event. If you think you know it all already, wait till you hear these two speakers.
Talk 01: Why and How to Build Your Personal Brand
Power of Personal Branding
Understanding your values and purpose
Integrated approach
Power of content
Social media strategy
Speaker: Harbinder Narula
Personal Brand Strategist.
Harbinder is ex-Google/YouTube, IndiaTimes. He’s earned his stripes all right. An industry-veteran, he loves to share how you can leverage your brand with the power of your personal and professional network.
Talk 02: Brand Design for Dhakkans 🙂
Get started with the Gold C.O.I.N framework for Brand Design
Be wary of the one-trick pony. The current product and service never define a brand
The Design of the name, logo, colors, tone-of-voice, emotions, and the design-think of the clarion-call of the brand.
Teach the baby elephant how to tread on egg-shells.
How the biggest enemy of your brand is destined to be your own brand.
Managing the complexities of a brand through its entire life-cycle.
From building your personal brand, to how to strategize and manage a brand from start to finish, this talk gets you off the ground in a remarkably short time.
For more details which answer your how, why, what, where, and free registrations, please click here:
