I just read a brilliant and well illustrated piece on the evolution of software product design. It takes you from the days of a lonely programmer with a technical problem to solve for themselves or possibly another buddy programmer, all the way through commercial product development. Check out this great storyboard for the gist of it:
Check out the full post for the narrative.
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