How accepting “just build this thing” can hurt your design career

👤 Kai Wong
📅 2026-03-17

Designers are being asked to build fast and why you need to push back

Imagine you’re starting a new project. You sit down for the kickoff meeting, and the PM walks in already holding something: a Figma Make mockup, a competitor screenshot, or an AI-generated wireframe from Sketch.
They already have a solution, and people are excited. They just look to you and say, “Can you ‘do your magic’ and make it ready?” What do you do? Full Product UX article at UX Collective »

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