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The worst designer I've ever worked with was also the most productive - Annotated by B. Prendergast

Like design , management , usability
Curated: 27/10/2025 from renderghost.leaflet.pub/3m2qmhm7kcc2l?ref=labnotes.org

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A short (true) story about a designer running amok, mistaking productivity for quality. He "pumped out more screens in a day than more experienced designers would in a week. Leadership adored him. They saw the speed... mistook it for value creation. ... What started as impressive momentum became an unmanageable flood... no critique, no usability testing, no standards.... no gatekeeping, no alignment, no time to check whether any of could solve a real problem or worked in our design system... straight from Figma to Jira, bloating the pipeline with decisions no one had the time or space to challenge...

Flooding the zone is easy... But it's not progress. It’s just output. And without critical thinking, output becomes theatre — things that look nice but solve nothing."

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