Back in the summer of 2019, I wrote a draft on the ways tech companies were shaping life in our cities with something we tend to take for granted: maps.
Back in the summer of 2019, I wrote a draft on the ways tech companies were shaping life in our cities with something we tend to take for granted: maps.
It’s easy to forget when a technology was new. And it’s even easier to assume things became The Way They Are™ through some sort of mystical process of the best concepts winning out in the marketplace of ideas. We forget that there are always those with a vested interest in the outcome: putting their thumb, their hand, and sometimes our tax dollars right down on the scale with as much weight as possible.
Design Engineers are well-positioned to step into the gap between product design and engineering and help close it from both sides.
The one in which I participate in the “blogging” chain letter that has been making the rounds in the indie web community.