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Developing digital products and services bears a heavy responsibility. But where does manipulation begin? And how can it actively be avoided? Our designers Mirko and Raphael attended three conferences that tried to find answers to these questions.

As this year is slowly coming to an end, we’d like you to join us in looking back on 2018. It’s been a year full of different and exciting projects, but we still saw one common thread running through many of them: the analysis and visualization of data – especially with regards to their geospatial reference.

How can you draw the attention of conference attendees to your booth and break the ice when talking to them? Our approach was a JavaScript-powered robot that’s able to draw customized map designs, which proved to be a complete success.

Samuel Oey and Clemens Gerth visited Google Cloud Next '18 in London at the beginning of October and caught up on what’s new in the Google Cloud universe. Their insights revolve around geo data, the GCP Marketplace, and Istio.

Spain sounds like summer, beach, and… React Alicante 2018! Our web devs Philipp Trunczik and Philipp Wambach attended the conference. Fortunately, the great weather wasn’t the only reason they enjoyed their stay. Their highlights were slots on ReasonML and forms in React as well as a feel-good appeal to all attendees.

Giving a meetup talk was one of her bucket list items. At the September meetup of the GDG Hamburg Android group, Natalya Blanco could finally tick that off her list. In her talk, the mobile developer shared her experience with multi-process synchronization using RxJava.