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Article — 9 December 2025 — 1,844 words

Resisting Conway’s law through more thoughtful mapping

Business — Digital — Information architecture — User experience

A large number of boxes arranged into a pyramid. The box on the top row is larger than all the others.

Organisational structures and information architectures are both often visualised in artefacts described as “maps”. These constrained visualisations may embed siloed ways of working, and create problems for our users.

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Photo — 17 October 2019 — 5 words

How silos proliferate

Business

Xkcd Standards comic edited to replace the word standards with silos

(With apologies to Randall Monroe.)

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