Jason Giles

What do you feel like are some of the big changes that have happened most?

Um, it's amazing.

I mean, congratulations too.

I saw the news around, um, uh,

The partnership was Anthropic, right?

um it's it's really fascinating and amazing to see how much is shifting um and you know there's a lot going on well let's let's dig into that because we've got a lot to unpack there's so many uh reports that have dropped lately like the key one which i always look forward to is the figma state of design so 2026 but we also had the idc report uh drop over as well around some of the workforce projections so

So first question, we are looking at the evolution of the design profession, or is this just a complete rewrite of it?

Yeah.

I mean, I can imagine there's listeners could probably have a lot of reactions to some of those numbers that are thrown out.

Yeah.

You know, from my perspective, my experience, I mean, the power of prototyping, there's obviously the direct power of being able to align people and solicit feedback, whether that's internally or externally.

But I think what is really exciting from my perspective, particularly as a leader,

is the opportunity, kind of going back to your point, of eliciting conversation around the right solution to problems.

And as you've talked to others, as I know you do, how should leaders be thinking about what we call craft?

Right.

I know the active conversations that we're having internally with my team and

and this extends to our product organization and even our engineering organization, is what does good look like?

What is quality?

If everybody is participating in developing a solution to these problems, what is that criteria that we can then scale out to say, I don't care.

who's designing it, but here are the requirements.