Why One Of Google's Wildest Designers Left For A Bank

Daniel Makoski--founder of Google's Project Ara modular phone--is leaving to work at Capital One. Here's why.

Last week, Regina Dugan, the former director of DARPA, stood on a stage and explained to a bunch of developers and reporters that as head of Google's secretive Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group, her job is to lead "a small band of pirates trying to do epic shit." It's not complete hyperbole. ATAP is a team of some of the most experimental hardware, software, and interface designers and engineers on the planet, each invited for a two-year contract, to do what's expected to be the best work of their careers. At the end of those two years they'll no doubt depart for a Silicon Valley startup or mainstay like Apple. Which makes it all the weirder that one of ATAP's most prominent designers is leaving ATAP for a bank.

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