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September 2025

Fresh starts and hostile hiring conditions

Having just left my full-time gig of the last 6 and a bit years, I am embarking on a new chapter of my own Design Leadership career through my…

Sep 24, 2025 • Stuart Frisby

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Some things to remember about promotion processes

Perhaps it’s the time of the year, or perhaps just another manifestation of the ever-present anxiety which is working in Tech in 2025, but I’ve had…

Sep 10, 2025 • Stuart Frisby

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Never fall in love with the tools

We are watching our entire industry and the wider community of people who make software fall over themselves to fall in love with - and try to convince…

Sep 8, 2025 • Stuart Frisby

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August 2025

The Logbook method of designer performance management

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago my belief that observation-driven performance management processes do designers a particular type of disservice in…

Aug 28, 2025 • Stuart Frisby

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Five things a good designer hiring process never has

🚩 Homework, Spec work, whiteboard tasks, etc. - This has been spoken about endlessly so I won’t go on too much about it, but suffice it to say if the…

Aug 7, 2025 • Stuart Frisby

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July 2025

Rethinking Performance Evaluations for Designers

I’ve long held a belief that observation-driven performance reviews do a disproportionate dis-service to designers.

Jul 31, 2025 • Stuart Frisby

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October 2024

Design Systems as vehicle for leadership

I would posit that the large majority of the overall impact of Design Systems work is actually not about consistency, speed of delivery, quality of…

Oct 7, 2024 • Stuart Frisby

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