ON BEING ANYTHING OTHER THAN A DESIGNER

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

A year of trying to be anything other than a designer comes as the AI era proves unkind to human-centered designers, especially outside massive companies. Every company has people who absorb organizational mess, work that pays poorly, carries no title, and is sometimes called glue work. The answer is not another heroic generalist but building enough capability into teams to understand customer need, experiment technically, and stop solving problems twice.