Designer Fund's report data outpaces its own company policies

Designer Fund's own gloss on its 900-designer survey is more useful than the raw findings because it names the tension the numbers create: weekly AI use jumped from 54% to 91% year over year, half of designers have shipped AI-generated code, yet only 28% of leaders have updated evaluation or hiring to match. Peer learning tripled to 80% while guidance from leadership fell, meaning teams are self-organizing faster than management can codify. The real signal is the 20% who report collaboration decreasing, up 4x, a cost nobody's measuring yet.