My Engineering Values | Mike McQuaid
mikemcquaid.com/2020/12/15/my-engineering-values/I’ve been encouraged by a mentor to think about what my core (engineering) values are (in the context of being recently promoted to be a “staff engineer” and having my eyes on being a “principal engineer” one day). This felt like something that could be of wider interest so here we go:
Design is about values — Mike Press — Medium
medium.com/@MikePress/design-is-about-values-b116e7e12b67Design makes a statement of what we want the world to be like. And in doing so, it is a political activity. Values are political, values express preferences about what problems are worth solving, and in whose interests they are solved. Values determine the degree to which design liberates or empowers the individual and those communities that make up the wider society.