Peter Abrahamsen
I want democratic values, human fulfillment, and joy to guide how we design and build tools for interaction.
Medium member since July 2018
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From The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing by Paul Ford
… built a tool to ease the programmer’s labors—a software development tool called Interface Builder. That started as a government-funded project in France, was turned into a feature of a version of the LISP programming language that ran on Macintoshes, a…
From Design Thinking is Kind of Like Syphilis — It’s Contagious and Rots Your Brains by Lee Vinsel
…es economic productivity slowed down around 1970, but the era of high innovation-speak began later. Indeed, post-1970 innovation-speak was likely, in part, a response to wide-spread worries and fears about flagging productivity and economic growth, increasing international competition, and a host of uncertainties. The innovators would come and save us. Only they haven’t.