Fast Company on the Design in Tech Report Part 3designintech.report - Posted byJohn Maeda I had a quick convo with my colleague Alexis Lloyd around the recent online debates regarding my quick interview with Fast Company the other week. It …
John Maeda: “In reality, design is not that important”Fast Company - Katharine SchwabThe head of inclusion and computational design at WordPress parent company Automattic thinks that designers should be more like supporting actors to the leading characters at tech companies–the developers
How To Speak Machine – How To Speak Machine 📘howtospeakmachine.com Phew. I just finished the final draft for HTSM, or “How To Speak Machine,” so it looks like it’ll get published by the end of this year. I’ve been …
A meditation on the open webautomattic.design What is the world of the open web like, beyond the walls of dominant social media platforms? How do our experiences of the internet differ depending …
Income Mobility Charts for Girls, Asian-Americans and Other Groups. Or Make Your Own.The New York Times Watch men and women of any race grow up in the United States.
Peter Temin: Economic Mobility Requires the Nearly ImpossibleThe Atlantic - Gillian B. WhiteThe MIT economist Peter Temin argues that economic inequality results in two distinct classes. And only one of them has any power. A lot of factors have contributed to American inequality: slavery, economic
For Designers, Inclusion Can Be a Source of InnovationFortune - Robert Horn Inclusion: It’s a worthy concept to encourage political participation, improve economic policy, and make life fairer in myriad other ways. But in the …
Watching David Bowie Argue With an Interviewer About the Future of the Internet Is BeautifulGizmodo - Matt Novak In 1999, Davide Bowie sat down for a TV interview with BBC host Jeremy Paxman. Bowie explains that if he were a kid of the 1990s he wouldn’t have …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo When Big Data Marketing Becomes Stalkingscientificamerican.com - Kate Crawford SA Forum is an invited essay from experts on topical issues in science and technology. Many of us now expect our online activities to be recorded and …
Automating Asset Creationautomattic.design The first thing a child draws looks like a circle. People spontaneously arrange themselves in a circle when they need to observe something close up, …
Microsoft Excel will now let you snap a picture of a spreadsheet and import itThe Verge - Tom WarrenMicrosoft is adding a very useful feature to its Excel mobile apps for iOS and Android. It allows Excel users to take a photo of a printed data table and convert it into a fully editable table in the This
