I don't believe in a superior grand designer overlooking it all from "his" cloud castle, but if such a deity did exist, I would be profoundly amazed. I find it interesting to think that one could come to find it anything but consequential.
Design engineer / UX developer with 17 years across product design and frontend. At Booking.com I worked on payments and checkout, contributing to a €35M conversion uplift; at Harvard I designed AR interfaces for academic and cultural heritage projects (Giza, Parthenon). Currently freelancing and shipping my own products.
Ironically enough, Dale Carnegie's book is about as far as you can get from genuine human connections. The whole book is centred aruond an underlying desire to gain something from someone.
So good on you for finding that one genuine bit of interaction in the entire book.
Damir is an expert UX Architect & UI Designer with over 15 years of multi-industry experience — designing sites and apps for the likes of Booking.com, Harvard University, Australian state governments, finance, XR and web3 startups worldwide. He specialises in taking startups from 0 to 1 — that is from strategic design consultation and UX architecture, to the nitty-gritty of UI design, design system creation, prototyping, quality analysis, user testing, hiring and mentorship. His talent for turning complex problems into elegant solutions is a winning formula that has left a legacy of successful projects with clients from Austria, Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Spain and the USA.
Doesn't take a genius to predict, but there ya go! Governments are assembling datasets in a very fragmented way. It'll take a private company to provide one single website to explore and find all datasets from around the world, making it easier to look at holistic patterns that are happening around the world, or compare patterns between countries.
Though, I would expect a much better UX from Google nowadays. This site has more in common with Google Scholar than Google Search.
And ultimately I'd like to see them build something where people don't need to download datasets in order to make use of the data.
I compare the state of open data to the state of mapping software before Google Maps. You needed to download map files and open them on special software that you open on your computer to make sense of the data. And then Google Maps came along and flipped that whole model. Open data needs the same leap forward in order for more people to make greater use of open data.
I don't believe in a superior grand designer overlooking it all from "his" cloud castle, but if such a deity did exist, I would be profoundly amazed. I find it interesting to think that one could come to find it anything but consequential.