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    #8: Why Do Good Teams Design Bad Things?

    September 15th, 2016 · 57 minutes

    This week's special guest is my old friend Peter Merholz, one of my co-founders at Adaptive Path and author of the new book, "Org Design for Design Orgs." We talk about how companies can better organize design teams, and trace the history of how — after two decades — design became an overnight success in technology.

    Guest Starring: Peter Merholz

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    Links and Show Notes

    Org Design for Design Orgs – Building and Managing In-House Design Teams
    Salesforce buys design agency Gravitytank - Business Insider
    The Wikipedia article on Cargo cults
    Designing Delivery by Jeff Sussna
    Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating the World
    peterme.com - Thoughts and essays from the guy who coined the word "blog."
    Peter Merholz (@peterme) on Twitter