Tag: Leadership
All the articles with the tag "Leadership".
- May2026
Restraint Is a Taste Decision
The barrier to building dropped. The barrier to understanding what people need did not. Restraint is the taste decision AI cannot supply.
- Apr2026
Judgment Is the Territory
Directing agents in a production-shaped sandbox is not designers replacing engineers. It is where intent meets an outcome someone can evaluate.
- Apr2026
Designers Need a Sandbox Repo
The missing piece is not another Figma file. It is a 1:1 clone of production where design can stress-test intent against real constraints.
- Apr2026
The Two Edges of Judgment
When the middle compresses, what is left is the front edge of intent and the back edge of evaluation. Three ways of standing there are defensible.
- Apr2026
The Disappearing Middle of Software Work
The middle of software work is collapsing. A lot of what designers called craft was execution, and the grief is about that discovery.
- Mar2026
Where the Capability Lives
The consequential design decision is rarely visual hierarchy. It is where a capability sits inside someone's workflow, before Figma opens.
- Mar2026
Ownership Beats Advocacy
Consensus does not scale, process will not save a wrong direction, and design leadership that only advocates has already signaled that design is optional.
- Mar2026
Clarity Before Agent Action
Waiting for alignment feels responsible. At agent speed it is how you ship a confident, well-built product in the wrong direction.
- Mar2026
Design Leadership Has Evolved
AI agents execute in an afternoon what used to take a team weeks. The beliefs I had about design leadership did not survive that speed.