The lack of actual leadership in our industry

Title == power and respect, and people like those things

I’ve heard that mentioned a lot. I’ve seen ppl say leadership is bad because people are fast tracking to be managers and they’re clueless on how to actually manage

That and being promoted to manager because of tenure and not skills has been normalized.. And usually people in director/head positions are not at a company themselves long enough to see the consequences of their decisions

Every non-designer being an expert in design. Not enough time and resources to do the craft.

I’m curious, what are the things you hate about the design industry. It could be anything

I can see this being a thing especially in companies that aren’t inherently design focused.

I ask because I see a lot of people who seem to genuinely not seem happy with the current state of things

That's definitely a problem.. I've had  different types of managers, including people who should've stayed ICs because they lack managerial skills. It ends up doing much more harm than good

That the big design conferences are built for big company learning budgets and inaccessible to the majority.

Everyone wins when the content and outcome of design work gets to be the most important thing, instead of the appearance of doing design thinking, or product management, or design systems, or dual track agile, or…

I’ll never understand why ppl want to “move up” so fast without building the skill to do the job well. Ppl value titles that much

I don’t like the constant change in tools, processes, expectations, requirements, etc. 

It makes it exciting, but also tiring, especially considering that I still have to work several decades 😅

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