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Skill Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste/skills/design-leadership

Design leadership patterns, design director skills, and scaling design influence.From its SKILL.md

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Design Leadership

Design Leader Responsibilities

Craft

  • Set the quality bar.
  • Review work regularly.
  • Stay close enough to the work to have informed opinions.
  • Know when to let go of control.

People

  • Hire for potential, not just current skill.
  • Create growth paths for ICs and managers.
  • Give feedback frequently (not just at reviews).
  • Shield the team from politics while being politically aware.

Strategy

  • Connect design to business outcomes.
  • Advocate for user research budget.
  • Build relationships with engineering and product leaders.
  • Make the case for design investment with data.

Culture

  • Establish critique habits.
  • Celebrate good work publicly.
  • Create psychological safety for creative risk-taking.
  • Document principles and share widely.

Common Mistakes

  • Being the best individual contributor instead of making the team better.
  • Hiring people just like yourself.
  • Over-processing (too many reviews, too many approvals).
  • Not saying no to protect team capacity.
  • Losing touch with actual user research.

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