What Derek Briggs thinks about documentation

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Designer and developer. Principal designer at Shopify; before that head of design at Hypermode (with Kevin Van Gundy, acquired) and, in 2024, Director of Design at Clerk.

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1. 3 Nov 2026

   Our readingTaste and craft should be documented as simple markdown skills that every designer's and engineer's agents use, so that greatness happens by accident.

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   Their wordsI think it's incredibly critically important to deploy taste and craft and quality and knowledge around what tools we need to use and what strategies we need to use to achieve the level of quality we're looking for. We need to document those in just simple markdown files of how I'm approaching this, what I'm doing, and here's the outcome. So that those skills can then just be deployed through our skill packages throughout our designers and our engineers to where greatness accidentally happens.

   ↗Derek Briggs - Scaling craft at Shopifyyoutube.com 4th of 13 in this recording