Some great examples in "Conway's Nightmare" https://youtu.be/5IUj1EZwpJY?t=2053 https://youtu.be/5IUj1EZwpJY?t=2053 My favorite from memory is that Windows now

Some great examples in "Conway's Nightmare" https://youtu.be/5IUj1EZwpJY?t=2053 https://youtu.be/5IUj1EZwpJY?t=2053 My favorite from memory is that Windows now has five completely different volume control UIs, each of which can be traced directly to distinct product teams and their organizational dynamics across time. This video makes goes futher and says that the evidence for Conway's law is not only strong but has yet to be disproven; the closest we can get to a fundamental law in computer science. Given that software is always created for a social purpose (there are some users or beneficiaries of the technology), it's sort of a tautology that social dynamics are going to strongly influence design.