Everyone who renders their intention is a designer, so the experienced designer's role shifts from owning the outcome to teaching the rest of the team to render theirs.

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  A product needs a soul, and for that it needs one person of great taste who is its living, breathing aspect and gets furious about every small detail.

  Saarinen says a product needs one person of great taste who gets furious about every small detail. Spool says everyone who renders their intention is a designer, and that the experienced designer’s job is therefore to teach the rest of the team rather than own the outcome. Both are answers to "where does design quality come from", and they distribute the authority opposite ways.

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• A baby-step version of eval-driven design is to sketch out 10 to 20 hero flows and run the feature or interaction through them to see where it falls apart. EBEd Bayes9 Sept 2026design
• A blank chat box is lazy: it violates the first rule of a good user experience, that it is obvious what you can do. JZJulie Zhuo12 May 2025design
• A company deserves everyone in it, the chief executive included, to spend as much time as possible in their zone of genius — which is an org design problem. RVRahul Vohra23 Mar 2025design
• A company hiring a designer is not hiring a politician or spokesperson, so it should just get into the design work. DMDanny Martinez29 Sept 2026design
• A company that adopts AI tools without changing its organisational design misses the biggest change under way. EVElena Verna10 Sept 2026design

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