v32 The Miyagi Method

​The Crane Kick of Creativity,

​This isn’t your average design meetup. We’re channeling the spirit of 80s dojo wisdom—a story of resilience, unconventional mentorship, and learning that sometimes, the most powerful moves are the quietest ones.

​Like Daniel-san, you might feel like you’re just painting fences or sanding floors… but every little motion adds up to mastery. Whether you're blocking burnout or sweeping the leg of boring briefs, this session is all about finding balance, patience, and purpose in your craft.

​So come ready to train your mind, sharpen your moves, and maybe—just maybe—pull off your own crane kick moment in design.
Because, as Mr. Miyagi says: “Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything.”

​Osu
<3 DesignOps

​p.s. You design best when design come from inside.

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Agenda

​​🚪 5:45 - Doors open 🍕🍻
🎤 6:00 - Welcome
👨‍🎤 6:15 - Talk #1
🍺 6:45 - Break
🎙 7:00 - Talk #2
🤙 7:30 - Mingling with fellow artists
🍺 8:00 - Go to the pub

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​👨‍🎤 Talk #1
Abi Iyer
“How to build a cult”. The talk will be on intentional hiring, bonding, and scaling high-performance design teams.

​👨‍🎤 Talk #2
Ljuba Youngblom
"A designer's job is to win" – In nearly every company I’ve worked at, I’ve felt an invisible force working quietly to squeeze design into a narrow gap between product management and engineering—to make design merely a step of an assembly line rather than strategically integrated. Worst of all, over time I’ve noticed designers get used to it and start to believe that’s just how it is.

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