A working note, ongoing

Most design teams aren't AI-native. They're AI-aware teams running on a pre-AI operating system. I rebuild the operating system.

Priyank Sharma — Design leader, 23 years, healthcare at enterprise scale. Currently in Gurgaon.

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Frameworks
AI-NATIVE DESIGN ORG MATURITY MODEL
Where your design org actually sits between “we tried ChatGPT” and “the operating system is built around agents.”
Curious Assisted Augmented Native
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THE COPILOT GRADIENT
Every design task lives on a spectrum between human-driven and agent-driven. The craft is picking the right point for each one.
Human Agent
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THE TASTE LAYER
AI is commoditising execution. What remains scarce — and what the work actually trades on — is taste.
Execution Taste
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AI is a mirror, not a genie AI Experiments Through the roof 5,530 The org that designs itself Leadership 2,382 Designing for the edges of healthcare Design 2,298 23 years and I still don't know what a senior designer is Career 6,456 The spec IS the UI now AI Experiments 2,509 Taste debt Design 1,043 In praise of boring managers Leadership 3,652 View all