Why designers should be embedded into product teams and what that even means

Operating “like an internal agency” is rarely the ideal.

Sean Dexter
9 min readDec 6, 2020
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Consider these two schools of thought for how a product company might structure its teams:

#1 — Project Teams

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Sean Dexter

Staff Product Designer @ Walmart Data Ventures. Prev: Meta, HubSpot & Cigna. I write about UX, agile, & product. linkedin.com/in/seandexter1/