People and Technology in the Digital Economy

Economics has nothing to do with money but everything to do with people. Economics also describes people’s motivations to change the state of such a system.

In the Digital economy, money is not the only value holder. Every digitalization of a traditional industry will force the market to do the same to stay competitive. Every company is a software company. Thus every employee works for a software company. The digital revolution is happening before our eyes.

Economics has nothing to do with cash but everything to do with people. Behavioral economics studies the relationship between people and their motivations. The economy has less to do with money than with people. The combination of people and software in this time and age defines the Digital economy.

The Digital economy represents how people interact with each other in a system. People develop software for people. Domain-Driven Design is a technique that tackles the complexity of systems at the heart of the problem. The interception between people interactions and technology.

The software that developers produce is changing the way that people interact with each other people. In the Digital Economy, developers are changing the way that people interact with each other. Domain-Driven Design helps define a vocabulary that domain experts support. The language allows developers to understand the organization from a software perspective.

Design is about finding why you are doing the piece of software you’re doing now. Communication with domain experts is about finding the motivations behind the requirements. The combination of the two opens the opportunity for innovation. By focusing on communication, developers can build software for people, not machines.

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[¹]: Vaughn Vernon (2013): (Implementing Domain-Driven Design)