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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

When you roll up and tell them "aha! actually this is BAD" they genuinely don't believe you. To them it looks fine. Acceptable. Good enough. For this argument to stick, you first have to either make stakeholders care about design in general, or about your opinion personally.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

We tried to make orgs care about Design for over a decade. Design Thinking was the original AI — hyped up to solve all problems for ever and 10x your returns. Where is Design Thinking now? Dead. In the end, no one cared. Whatever influence design had gained proved to be fleeting.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The only option left is to earn personal trust with stakeholders. Establish a reputation of someone with good judgment and effective track record, rather than a gatekeeper, and they'll be coming *to you* to ask if their shitty AI-gen dashboard is good (it won't be, don't worry).

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 08/08/2025

One thing I've come to believe — something I'd rather not believe — is that great design doesn't matter that much when it comes to the things that most orgs care about. Functional design? Absolutely. Good design? Probably. But the floor for "acceptably functional" is lower than I wish it was.

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Winnie Frolik @winniethewitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Unless of course clients start complaining about lousy products

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