Create a designer competency profile with the fixed 8-axis model.
How reliably the designer strengthens team norms, collaboration quality, and culture.
Communication clarity, empathy, stakeholder management, and collaboration quality.
Planning, delegation, coaching, prioritization, and coordination ability.
Craft depth across product design execution, tools, systems thinking, and delivery quality.
Consistency, design systems fluency, process rigor, and quality bars in shipped work.
Ability to move work forward independently with sound judgment and low supervision overhead.
Ability to shape decisions, align partners, and create momentum beyond direct ownership.
Breadth and complexity of problems the designer can own and deliver successfully.