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Derek Briggs

What Derek Briggs thinks about management

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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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3 dated positions, 2024 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Derek Briggs has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingLess and less leadership is needed these days, because LLMs and AI tooling give so many answers instantly.

    LLMs

    Their wordsAnd I think from a leadership perspective that there's just less and less leadership needed these days, being that with all of our LLMs and AI tooling that we have, there are so many answers to get instantly.

    ↗Derek Briggs - Scaling craft at Shopifyyoutube.com 3rd of 13 in this recording

  2. 3 years earlier

  3. Our readingDeadlines either let work stretch out to fill the time or force a project to be descoped to meet an arbitrary date.

    Their wordsI have a big issue with deadlines. Setting a deadline is going to either allow the person to stretch out that amount of work over that period of time or have to eventually de-scope the project to be able to meet that arbitrary deadline.

    ↗Derek Briggs - Creating a design culture of craft (Dive Club Ep. 34)youtube.com 5th of 7 in this recording

  5. Our readingHire the right people and do not question what they do: velocity and pride both go up.

    hiring

    Their wordsfocusing on hiring the right people for the job and just letting them do their job. You think that they're the best person for this, so don't question what they're doing. Then the velocity's higher, the pride is higher, and I think you just get to where you want to be quicker.

    ↗Derek Briggs - Creating a design culture of craft (Dive Club Ep. 34)youtube.com 6th of 7 in this recording