The more senior the designer, the more abstract the problem they should be solving.

To break it down more tangibly, let’s look at some examples of levels and appropriate responsibilities:

Designer Lvl 1: Design a form that lets people edit their profile. Pretty scoped—assumes there is a profile, and that the solution takes the shape of a form.

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Ask someone to define design, and they’ll likely list outputs—buildings, logos, products, apps—or fall back on process platitudes. But these narrow views miss what makes design essential today. Throughout history, new technologies have opened new fields of expression and expanded what's possible. Every time a new... See more