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Design Leadership Memos

Rethinking Performance Evaluations for Designers

I’ve long held a belief that observation-driven performance reviews do a disproportionate dis-service to designers. The model of managerial assessment, multi-disciplinary calibration and stack ranking performed at departmental levels lead invariably to worse outcomes for designers than they do for other disciplines because we are outnumbered by people who