@runemadsen The bureaucratizing of design you describe closely mirrors “Agile” engineering processes, where individual agency is stripped out for supposedly repeatable process. It’s a shame that so many orgs hire smart people and then make them work in dumb ways.
"These core competences that were inherited from graphic design have been replaced with a poor man’s version of an anthropology major where the act of design is mostly based on averaging user opinions."
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@runemadsen@OReillyMedia I don't think I ever told anybody, but I was able to log into the AWS console using one of the sets of credentials in here and browse the S3 buckets.
It was BAD.
@runemadsen@OReillyMedia What a fun memory! It was even worse than this, though. You could put in ltille bash commands and then navigate their filesystem for juicy tidbits. I found the original email we sent, and here's what we used as a demo: