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Role guide
Design Manager / Head of Design
- Set evidence-grounded design direction and priorities. - Review design quality, consistency, accessibility, feasibility, and rights. - Prepare critique, decision, and delivery alignment.
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Design Manager / Head of Design Overview
ONET describes art directors as formulating design concepts, directing visual material, reviewing and approving designs, coordinating teams, and managing schedules and budgets.
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Design Manager / Head of Design source-backed Triage
1. State the requested decision or deliverable. 2. Inventory evidence: product and user outcomes, research and usability evidence, design-system state, technical constraints, accessibility.
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Design direction and review brief
State the direct answer, recommendation, or draft purpose.
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Who it is for
- People performing or supporting Design Manager / Head of Design work, plus teams reviewing its decisions and outputs
- Teams working in Design, Digital products
When to use it
- A Design Manager / Head of Design task needs a structured plan, evidence checklist, or review-ready output.
- A recommendation needs its assumptions, owners, risks, dependencies, and success measures made explicit.
What you need to provide
- The task objective, intended audience, working context, constraints, source material, and decision owner.
- Relevant reports, exports, examples, policies, prior decisions, and success measures available for the task.
Tasks and expected outputs
Questions it helps answer
- Make design decisions without fabricated research.
- Connect critique to user and product evidence.
- Preserve accessibility, rights, feasibility, and approval boundaries.
What it helps produce
- Design direction and review brief
Practical example
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Provide the task objective, intended audience, working context, constraints, source material, and decision owner. Ask the agent to approach Design Manager / Head of Design work by producing Design direction and review brief with a prioritized plan, evidence checks, owners, risks, and unresolved questions. Begin with O*NET OnLine — Summary / 27 1011.00, then confirm that the reference is current and applicable. Inspect Design Manager / Head of Design before drafting.
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What the bundle includes
Frameworks
- source-evidence matrix
- design-decision evidence matrix
- qualified-review gate
Evaluations
- Design Manager / Head of Design source verification check
Sources used to build this bundle
These are the public references behind the role definition and operating guidance. The bundle does not replace current documentation or evidence from your site.
Limitations and safe use
Do not use this for
- Treating the bundle as a substitute for organization-specific authority, firsthand evidence, or accountable review.
Known limitations
- Design-specific work requires current research, system, technical, accessibility, rights, delivery, and approval evidence.
- This bundle does not certify accessibility or legal rights.
- Do not infer user needs, test results, conformance, rights, staffing, or approval.
Safety notes
- Minimize participant and customer data.
- Require confirmation before public release, user research, major system changes, or rights-sensitive use.
- Route accessibility, legal, research-ethics, privacy, and safety decisions to qualified reviewers.