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Dale Sande, Design Technologist at Alaska Airlines, makes a brilliant introduction to his talk on design systems and web components, when he shows Apple and Disney’s web sites from 1996, and says:
Teams were put together for these very small things to build. The technology wasn’t big, so you didn’t need a big team. So what I find ironic is—we all know it, you can look at this and go “oh God that’s 1996, web sites don’t look like that anymore”. But I’d argue that in a lot of places teams treat teams like you’re building web sites in 1996. Right? You have really small teams. You have disjointed design people. You may have a design person on your team. But are they actually really treated like a team person? You are trying to cover all your bases with a small team to deliver this insanely complex—which I don’t call web pages anymore… They’re fricking applications.
