Jason also made sure to emphasize how valuable hybrid engineer-designers are to modern businesses.

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This would be a useful trait to engineer into hybrid crops, such as rice, so that the seeds could carry the same properties generation upon generation.

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Just like Facebook bought Instagram to show it how to engineer user experience using hybrid techniques, Twitter is now buying the intellectual property and hiring the brains behind Clutch.io in order to move their mobile apps in a more agile direction.

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