Elizabeth Stone
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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But for our most important priorities,
Design is critical to solve things in the right way.
So we do still make time for important design work.
It can move faster.
The designers themselves have more tools in their toolkit so they can do incredible work at a faster velocity, show more options, learn, iterate, test more quickly.
But I think it would be a mistake to say,
design and deep design expertise in thinking gets squeezed out just because we can write code faster.
We can do data analysis faster.
That feels like, at least for a large scale consumer product like Netflix, I feel like we would lose one of the things that makes Netflix great, which is
the product technology and design makes a lot of complexity invisible and makes for a seamless customer experience.
That's a design mindset that has to be core to it.
So the work itself might look different, but I don't think we lose the mindset.
The days of very narrow, deep specialization feel more limited to me.
I can come up with examples where we still need it because there's an industry or technology expertise where there's only a few people in the world who really know how things work.
We have examples of that on the team for encoding or how our playback systems work and things that have been incredibly innovative and novel for Netflix.
I still believe we need specialized practitioners in those spaces.
But as a general rule, compared to five or 10 years ago, I would believe we have fewer specialists and more people who are generalists or adaptable in multiple directions.
And that could be adaptable across functional expertise.
It could be adaptable across flavors of engineering.
So can I navigate both back-end and front-end systems?
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