By emphasizing design's role as a producer of visual outputs, our leaders have eroded the entire justification for UX as a practice.
Our first goal should not be functional outputs, but conceptual integrity. Instead of constantly trying to expand the scope of work designers take responsibility for, we should find ways to take the scenic route towards our goal. Harness the divergent thinking of unaligned stakeholders to move everyone roughly in the same direction and you’ll spend less time on getting to a place everyone can agree is valuable. — Pavel at the Product Picnic