The series helps us share a dinner table to discuss the future of design, and its impact on the people for whom we design, around their stories, their success, and their constraints.

Design is on an interesting intersection of leadership, ethics, and outcome. 8Knorks gives you a chance to admit your vulnerabilities, clearly and loudly because you are never quoted anywhere. 

How? The names of participants are not made public at any stage of the activity, before, during, or after the dinner. The participants can discuss their vulnerabilities, constraints, the blindfolds, and what stops them to invest better in their learnings and in their work. We, the organizers never quote the participant name while sharing the takeaways of the dinner.

So, you got to choice to be as loud as you want. As clear as you want to be. As critical of anything inside or around you.

The goal is to find directions for a more mature design leadership culture in Chandigarh region, and this design awareness transcends across our teams and network and organizations, and to everyone. The following references comes into play while applying for 8Knorks.

Design’s lost generation, by Mike Monteiro on Medium (article)

The end of navel gazing, by Paul Adams of Intercom (article)

The role of story in experience design, by James Buckhouse of Sequoia (article)

Design in interesting times, Emmet Connolly of Intercom (article)

Storytelling in product design, by Sarah Doody (video)

Storytelling. Narrative. UX. Experience Design, by Michael Margolis (video)