DesignUp

Name: DesignUp 2025 · Bengaluru
Start: 2025-11-03
End: 2025-11-05
Location: Bengaluru, India

DesignUp is an annual design-and-technology conference and community in Bengaluru, India (since 2016), connecting designers, product makers and technologists across India and Southeast Asia.

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Next edition

October 2026

Location

Bengaluru, India

Format

In person

Organiser

DesignUp

About DesignUp

DesignUp is a Design and Technology conference and year-round community based in Bengaluru, India, founded in 2016. Editions feature keynotes, panels, workshops, and masterclasses for UX and UI designers, product managers, researchers, and front-end engineers.

The programme draws speakers from companies across India and beyond, and the community also runs smaller meet-ups and workshops in India and Singapore.

Editions

Upcoming

Upcoming
2026
1–4 Oct
Bengaluru
Lineup unknown
2025
3–5 Nov
Bengaluru
30 speakers
Speakers in 2025Speakers at DesignUp 2025
3–5 NovBengaluru
Aashish Solanki
20-Year Case Study on Imposter Syndrome: What It Took (and Still Takes) to Belong
Adam Kallish
Escape the Implementation Trenches: Position Your Design Capability for Opportunity on Your Terms.
Alex Skougarevskaya
Between Floors: What Nobody Tells You About Design Leadership's in-Between Spaces
Allen Shaw
I Am the Sketchbook, You're My Song.
Amit Kumar Tiwari
Dual Fluency: Talk Business. Talk Design.
Amit Patel
From Pivot to Purpose: How Designers Can Thrive in a Broken System
Archana Thiagarajan
How Designers Can Build & Keep Trust in the Age of AI
Arin Bhowmik
Designers in the Age of AI: Evolving the Currency of Creative Impact
Arvind Lodaya
Design Futures Collaboratory
Catalina Estrada
The Invisible Value of Design
David Dylan Thomas
What If People Weren't the Product? Building a More Human Web
Fonz Morris
Monetizing Creativity in the Digital Age
James Green
Accessibility IS Design: Championing Access, Guiding Teams, Including All Users
Jay Dutta
DesignUp at Nine: The Cartographer's Edge
Katja Forbes
Machines Are Customers Too!
Khushboo Agarwal
When English Is the Error State: Designing for the Next Billion
Lauren Celenza
The Designer's Edge: Storytelling in a Machine-Made World
Madhushree Kamak
Redesigning the Currency of Culture: Museums for the Next Generation
Maria Rosala
The Currency of Human Research in the Age of AI
Niklas Mortensen
Devalued: How Design Lost Its Currency (and How to Get It Back)
Noopur Datye
Letters with Voices: Bespoke Typefaces for Brands, Technology and People
Rasagy Sharma
Photo-Graphics: Photography Through Lens of Data & Code
Roshan Abbas
WIP (Progress, Profit, Pixels, & Panic)
Sahibpal Singh
Designing the Invisible Infrastructure
Sarika Goel
Designing for the Worst Day of Your Customer's Life
Soo Basu
Permission to Play - Exploring the Landscapes of Your Life Through Visual Thinking
Sudharsanaa T
Designing the Invisible Infrastructure
Varsha Jadhav
Dual Fluency: Talk Business. Talk Design.
Vidisha Hegde
Framing What Matters: A Blueprint for Insight-Led Problem Solving
Yash Deshpande
Confessions of a Figma Janitor: I Cried, I Cleaned, I Coded a Plugin
2024
28 Sep–4 Oct
Bengaluru
48 speakers
2023
24 Nov
Bengaluru
28 speakers
2022
17–18 Sep
Bengaluru
17 speakers
2019
12–16 Nov
Bengaluru
22 speakers

Speakers in 2025Speakers at DesignUp 2025

3–5 NovBengaluru

Aashish Solanki
20-Year Case Study on Imposter Syndrome: What It Took (and Still Takes) to Belong
Adam Kallish
Escape the Implementation Trenches: Position Your Design Capability for Opportunity on Your Terms.
Alex Skougarevskaya
Between Floors: What Nobody Tells You About Design Leadership's in-Between Spaces
Allen Shaw
I Am the Sketchbook, You're My Song.
Amit Kumar Tiwari
Dual Fluency: Talk Business. Talk Design.
Amit Patel
From Pivot to Purpose: How Designers Can Thrive in a Broken System

Archana Thiagarajan
How Designers Can Build & Keep Trust in the Age of AI
Arin Bhowmik
Designers in the Age of AI: Evolving the Currency of Creative Impact
Arvind Lodaya
Design Futures Collaboratory
Catalina Estrada
The Invisible Value of Design
David Dylan Thomas
What If People Weren't the Product? Building a More Human Web
Fonz Morris
Monetizing Creativity in the Digital Age
James Green
Accessibility IS Design: Championing Access, Guiding Teams, Including All Users
Jay Dutta
DesignUp at Nine: The Cartographer's Edge
Katja Forbes
Machines Are Customers Too!
Khushboo Agarwal
When English Is the Error State: Designing for the Next Billion
Lauren Celenza
The Designer's Edge: Storytelling in a Machine-Made World
Madhushree Kamak
Redesigning the Currency of Culture: Museums for the Next Generation
Maria Rosala
The Currency of Human Research in the Age of AI
Niklas Mortensen
Devalued: How Design Lost Its Currency (and How to Get It Back)
Noopur Datye
Letters with Voices: Bespoke Typefaces for Brands, Technology and People
Rasagy Sharma
Photo-Graphics: Photography Through Lens of Data & Code
Roshan Abbas
WIP (Progress, Profit, Pixels, & Panic)
Sahibpal Singh
Designing the Invisible Infrastructure
Sarika Goel
Designing for the Worst Day of Your Customer's Life
Soo Basu
Permission to Play - Exploring the Landscapes of Your Life Through Visual Thinking
Sudharsanaa T
Designing the Invisible Infrastructure
Varsha Jadhav
Dual Fluency: Talk Business. Talk Design.
Vidisha Hegde
Framing What Matters: A Blueprint for Insight-Led Problem Solving
Yash Deshpande
Confessions of a Figma Janitor: I Cried, I Cleaned, I Coded a Plugin