Designing Outside the Mainstream (Jordan Koschei)

There are days when it seems like every good designer lives in San Francisco and works on consumer-facing products. Following our peers on Twitter, reading tech articles and blog posts, listening to design podcasts — all of these can give the impression that our whole world exists in one place, and that those who aren’t on the inside — the digerati and designerati — are being left out. (theindustry.cc)