The leadership work behind Design.
A panel discussion on the hard calls design leaders make when trust, speed, culture, people, data, and story begin to compete, and what must be protected when every decision comes with a cost.
Design Leadership
Should a strong design culture need designers in every room?
Designers and design leaders debated whether strong design cultures should require designers in every room. The discussion opened an important reflection: how can design intent scale without diluting craft, judgement, and the user’s voice?
What design leadership really demands today?
An insightful reflection on design leadership across judgement, information flow, transparency, team growth, ownership, organisational influence, and the evolving role of design beyond output.
EPC Design Dialogues: On Design as a Practice
Takeaways from EPC Design Dialogues’ round tables on leadership, critique, AI, B2B delight, behaviour, coaching, and the shift from design as output to design as responsible judgment.
Bridging the gap between doing & leading in design.
Design leadership = Shield → Signal → Shape. Shield teams from noise; signal outcomes beyond UI/UX; shape craft via critique. Drop micromanaging & process dogma; start broadcasting capability and teaching with real work. Leaders need craft fluency + orchestration.