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What Adam Mosseri thinks about design

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Head of Instagram since 2018, previously head of Facebook's News Feed.

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4 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Adam Mosseri has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingSmall product teams beat large ones for a reason that has nothing to do with AI: fewer people to coordinate means less design by committee.

    Their wordsBut they just by virtue of having less people to coordinate they can often move faster and make um better decisions a little bit less design by committee.

    ↗The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG)youtube.com 1st of 20 in this recording

    Interesting

  3. Our readingDesigners will do well out of AI rather than badly, because taste is the hardest part of their job to imagine being automated away.

    Their wordsyou've got these other generalists doing design, you've got engineers doing design, product staff doing design, but I'm actually pretty long on design or designers because they tend to have taste and I think that is something that is much more difficult to imagine being automated away.

    ↗The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG)youtube.com 2nd of 20 in this recording

    taste

    Interesting

  5. Our readingGrit, fast learning and self-awareness are enough to get good at anything eventually, and whenever somebody is not working out, one of the three is missing.

    Their wordsBecause if you're those three things, if you got fire in your belly, you learn quickly, and you're self-aware, you can kind of get good at anything eventually.

    ↗The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG)youtube.com 3rd of 20 in this recording

    Interesting

  7. Our readingBuilding a new product on top of whatever is growing fastest is a mistake: momentum is not the same thing as a strong foundation.

    Their wordswe were trying to build reels into stories because we were trying to build in the thing that was growing the fastest. But it was not a strong foundation.

    ↗The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG)youtube.com 19th of 20 in this recording

    Interesting