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Design leaders at Maze, DoorDash, Stripe describe how they structured AI adoption

Source
Teams
Published
AI in Design Report 2026

Four design leaders describe abandoning top-down AI mandates for structured freedom. Maze's Netali Jakubovitz scrapped a rigid adoption policy for what she calls going "bonanza," giving designers budget and time with no rules attached. DoorDash went the opposite direction operationally but the same direction philosophically: a company BHAG pushed every designer to ship PRs, backed by a two-day hackathon that produced 200 of them. Stripe's Katie Dill and Watershed's Hannah Hudson both land on the same bottleneck, dedicated time to actually build, not just tool access.

Sources

  • Teamsstateofaidesign.com
    Published by
    AI in Design Report 2026
    Type
    Original reporting

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