--- title: Blog — DataDrive | Human Centered Design description: Human Centered Design | DataDrive's blog covers a variety of topics, including best practices for building modern data teams and cloud data platforms in addition to tool training for Tableau, Snowflake, Fivetran, Matillion, and Sigma Computing. --- # The DataDrive Blog #### Our take on all things data. ### Human Centered Design [![DataDrive 2021 Best Places To Work](https://godatadrive.com/hubfs/bestPlacesToWork.jpg) ](https://godatadrive.com/blog/datadrive-best-place-to-work) #### [DataDrive Recognized with 2021 Best Places to Work Title](https://godatadrive.com/blog/datadrive-best-place-to-work) ![Picture of Luke Komiskey](https://godatadrive.com/hs-fs/hubfs/luke-1.png?width=30&name=luke-1.png) [Luke Komiskey](https://godatadrive.com/blog/author/luke-komiskey): Jun 16, 2021 I am excited to announce that DataDrive has been recognized as a 2021 Best Places to Work by the... 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