After the pause and exploration into the DesOps / DesignOps area of roughly a year and half, I am back, with with some reflections with the focus on “Process”. Unlike the early years, back in 2013-14, when I had started with design automation to make the life of the designers easy; gradually started writing about connecting different …
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Community : Play is Serious: BLR Creative Mini Gateway  – a community of designers in Cisco Bengaluru.  The talk will focus on Open Design System including the references to Nuclear Design and Semantic models on building Design System. Three key takeaways:

1. Background and of existing design systems and evolution
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his is a PDF of my keynote for DesignOps Global Conference 2019 [https://designops-conference.com/day-2-may-31/] This is about exploring a framework to build a scalable, portable design system for collaboration and automation by machines. This keynote is part of Session 4. Session 4 | (PM) DesignOps in the era of AI and …
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Topic: UI/UX Workshop for Startups Date: 1st April 2019 Venue: SJC Institute of Technology, Chikkaballapur , [P.B.No. 20, B.B.Road, Chickballapur – 562 101] https://goo.gl/maps/K4gv331xVDQ2  About the Event:  UI/UX workshop is organized with an objective to provide students with understanding the value of user experience in product design and to have hands-on exposure to the Product Development …
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On  Amazon: PAPERBACK:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1799171671/ ISBN-13: 978-1799171676 ISBN-10: 1799171671

• Paperback: 454 pages
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1799171671
• ISBN-13: 978-1799171676
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 1.1 x 8 inches

Indian Print Paperback https://www.amazon.in/dp/B07Q2VGP9V/

• Publisher: DesOps.io; 2nd Edition edition (1 March 2019)
• ISBN-10: 938871265X
• ISBN-13: 978-9388712651
• ASIN: B07Q2VGP9V
• Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm

This is an updated edition …
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Topic: [TBD – On  DesOps /DesignOps ] Date: 30/31 May 2019 Venue:  Manchester, England Super excited to be part of DesignOps Global Conference (www.designops-conference.com) to share ideas with some great minds on hashtag#designops hashtag#desops hashtag#design and the future of hashtag#design from the lens of hashtag#openorg culture and hashtag#designthinking being applied as the …
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[This is part of the slides I used in Community Call at Red Hat UI/UX Community of Practice on 9 Nov 2018. More details : http://desops.io/2018/11/09/talk-at-rh-ui-ux-community-of-practice-desops-101-overview/] (c) Samir Dash, 2018. All rights reserved. This content including the images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license …
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DesOps 101: Overview  Community Calls  The talk will focus on overview  DesOps. Three key takeaways:

1. Background and overview of DesOps.
2. The high-level overview of the different dimensions of Design operations
3. DesOps from Service Design point of view
4. Samples/Examples
5. Cultural dimension and Open Org aspect.

Date & Time: 12:AM – 1 …
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When we talk about an open world, we inherently refer to an attempt towards making it possible so that all the entities in that eco-system can talk to each other. It would involve people, props and processes – the typical 3 components we use in a service design model (https://www.nngroup.com/articles/service-design-101/) Any service design tool helps …
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[This is the SECOND part of the half-day workshop titled “Applying DesOps in Your Enterprise” I conducted at the “UX India Conference 2018” on 4th October, 2018, Bengaluru. This part focused on ‘Design System’ aspect of DesOps, and tried to address the challenges that designer face when they collaborate using …
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[This is the first part of the half-day workshop titled “Applying DesOps in Your Enterprise” I conducted at the “UX India Conference 2018” on 4th October, 2018, Bengaluru. This part focused on ‘Process’ aspect of DesOps, and tried to address the challenges of bringing the designers to the same page …
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Applying DesOps in Your Enterprise 3 hrs Workshop | Category: Design Practice & Process | Target Audience: Anyone who is interested in optimizing the processes used in the enterprise or building solutions that focuses on process re-engineering is the most suitable audience for the first part of the workshop.   Any User-Experience pro,  Design Thinker, …
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The word “evolution” was first found to be used around 1647 which was more popularised by the Naturalists towards the end of 18th century who upheld the age old pre-socratic Greek philosopher Anaximander’s view that humans must have evolved from an animal and this evolution must have sprung from sea …
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In search of a tool that can minimize the translations of values, in context to UI design space, I was toying with an idea of Ditto, a simplified version of the tool that can look familiar to the different roles involved in the process and at the same time it will align …
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“Design System” plays a critical role in bringing a common language and consistency in experience across different products and brands of the organisation, along with fuelling a collaborative approach towards design, making it easier for different team members to contribute. With observation of design systems, we can notice, almost all …
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[NOTE: Check the part 1 at : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/photo-essay-semantic-design-system-part-1-gaps-todays-samir-dash/ and part 2 at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/photo-essay-semantic-design-system-part-2-nuclear-model-samir-dash/] This originally part of a talk I gave at UX-India Pre-Conference Meetup at Symbiosis College, Bengaluru on 1st September 2018, titled: Semantic Design System — Redefining Design Systems for DesOps . The talk explored the existing implementations of design-systems and will be making …
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[NOTE: Check the part 1 at : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/photo-essay-semantic-design-system-part-1-gaps-todays-samir-dash/] This originally part of a talk I gave at UX-India Pre-Conference Meetup at Symbiosis College, Bengaluru on 1st September 2018, titled: Semantic Design System — Redefining Design Systems for DesOps . The talk explored the existing implementations of design-systems and will be making an attempt to …
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This originally part of a talk I gave at UX-India Pre-Conference Meetup at Symbiosis College, Bengaluru on 1st September 2018, titled: Semantic Design System — Redefining Design Systems for DesOps . The talk explored the existing implementations of design-systems and will be making an attempt to provide high-level approach to define design systems …
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Topic:  Semantic Design System: Re-defining Design System for DesOpsSummaryThe talk will explore the existing implementation of design-systems and will be making an attempt to provide high-level approach to define design systems for the next-gen enterprises.  Date & Time: 1:15 PM – 6:30 PM on 1 September 2018
Venue:  Symbiosis College, Electronic city, – Bengaluru, IndiaEvent: UX …
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DesignOps is an approach to design inspired by the culture of DevOps. In this session, we will be touching upon the practical approaches on how to prepare for the next wave in design that compliments DevOps in the concepts of the cultural shift, collaboration, and automation. We will also see …
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This is a paper presented by Samir Dash at Department of English, Baba Bhairabananda Autonomous Mahavidyalaya, Jajpur, Odisha (http://bbmchandikhole.org/) on 16 July 2018 This UGC seminar session was an attempt to understand, from a non-traditional lens, the relevance of critical theory in context to today’s ever-changing technology space that is …
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