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Can this designer be great here? (opens the original)
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A few years ago, a designer on my team left the company. They were UI-focused and responsible for our design system, so the natural response was to hire another designer with similar experience. My manager, a product leader, suggested exactly that, and it made sense.But I remember thinking that what we had lost wasn’t necessarily what we needed next.We were a relatively small team made up of very senior, independent designers. So instead of starting with the job description of the person who had
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