A common dynamic I observe with AI: it feels most impressive when you don’t know much about the subject, don’t care or don’t have a clear idea of what the you want.
This applies across design, code, legal, and more. If I don’t know code very well, every piece of code it writes
Fun chat with @brettberson from @firstround on Executive Function. We got concrete on what “quality” actually means, scaling design in hypergrowth, and why the best teams blur the lines between design/product/engineering. (Plus I got to slip in a Henry Dreyfuss mention!)
This is Episode 2 of Executive Function with Ryan Lucas, VP of Design at Rippling and former Head of Design at Retool.
For Ryan, everything begins with being very clear about what the job of design and a design function really is. In his words, “Useful, usable and desirable are
“98% of everything that is built and designed today is pure shit. There's no sense of design, no respect for humanity or for anything else. They are damn buildings and that's it. Once in a while, there's a small group of people who do something special. Very few.”
