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Re:Fuckin' user interface design, I swear by CivBase on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @08:54AM (#26398743)
> As organizational complexity increases, design debt and responsibility becomes diffused among larger and larger groups of people. Leading to the bizarre situation where no individual has power or responsibility over anything specifically.

This is extremely true in my experience, but how can you fight against this as an organization scales? Just simplify the org structure and define strict definitions for what each level is responsible for?

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Re:Fuckin' user interface design, I swear by Aeolun on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @10:43AM (#26399866)
Very small teams with a very specific area of responsibility.

The moment you get whole departments involved you’ve already lost.

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Re:Fuckin' user interface design, I swear by anaerobicover on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @11:56AM (#26400718)
But then inevitably you have either overlap or conflict between these small teams, because one of them needs something that's within the other's responsibility. Larger structures necessarily form.
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