Methods
Formalized frameworks on design strategy, discovery, user research at scale, design leadership.
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Design-in-code
Consolidated
Playground-driven design, specifying every state in code before the API hookup
The playground is a design artifact that lives inside the codebase, not next to it. Neither disposable prototyping nor generated design-to-code: design-in-code. The designer sees every screen in all its states (default, loading, empty, error, success) within seconds, without a backend, and produces the real code the developer will later hook up to the API. The value is not the prototype, it is the interface contract: every state is specified before the developer writes the integration.
Read the method September 2026
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AI enablement
Consolidated
The Squad Starter Pack, equipping a team to work with AI
A set of files and skills placed in the team's repository gives the AI the context it needs, durably, shared across sessions and across people. Four foundations first, contextual extensions next, and a self-check that says where the team stands and what to start with. The goal is not compliance: it is creating the conditions for the AI to be genuinely useful, durably and collectively.
Read the method August 2026
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Leadership and autonomy
Consolidated
Career Path, a shared framework for evaluating design skills
Evaluate in parallel, calibrate afterwards, share in 1:1. A shared framework is not a grading tool, it is growth infrastructure. Its value lies in the conversation it makes possible, not in the score it produces.
Read the method May 2026