Introducing DesignDay

We have attended the first DesignDay with Kshitiz today, at the Microsoft Research Lab (Lavelle Road, one kilometer South from MG Road). It is a very new concept, aiming to monthly gather good thinking minds to make some awesome stuff. It is not about finding a job or showing off his own work, but rather opening his mind and acting as a community to build something bigger. The participation is the key, everybody is required to present his work, make a lecture or whatever. By the way, the project is ran by only three people, and they recruit volunteers to help them, if there is someone interested. Another value is the consistency prevailing over glamour. Meaning that you don’t need any specific knowledge to talk about space design or user experience, as long as you have an analytic mind, able to think relevantly. On the contrary, DesignDay aims to be multidisciplinary, so gathering designers from every possible horizon will lead to a great cross-learning.

The program was pretty simple: A first lecture about user-experience, it was about an application which helps measuring our mood of the current moment, and then proposes poems, music, and other features fitting that mood. A second lecture about biomimicry, which is the great idea of reusing nature’s logic to design, by introducing biologists to design teams. Last one about generative systems, or the way of using algorithms to create unique visuals, using merely one program. Last but not least, the event finished with a JAM session, where we worked in teams about an application to get healthy using smartphones & social networking. This moment was a great opportunity to work with professionals and see actually what is their methodology. Needless to say that we all had our own.

So guys, if you’re interested in meeting, experiencing, working with, discovering indian designers and this emerging community around Bangalore, do attend the next DesignDay ;).

http://www.designday.co/
http://www.khamdesign.com/
http://www.genekogan.com/