# How to keep design teams steady through constant change

DevFeed: [How to keep design teams steady through constant change](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-keep-design-teams-steady-through-constant-change-9929.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.figma.com/blog/jen-dunnam-lead-design-teams/>)

Author: Emma Webster

Published: 2026-07-09T14:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Figma Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/figma-blog.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Figma](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/figma.md>), [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [collective](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collective.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [insights](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/insights.md>), [leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership.md>)

## AI overview

Design leader Jen Dunnam shares advice for keeping design teams steady during rapid AI-driven change. She emphasizes grounding decisions in human needs, experimenting thoughtfully with tools, investing in early-career talent, pairing experience levels, and hiring researchers who can turn insights into decisive product direction.

## Source excerpt

Drawing on her time at Patreon and Shopify, design leader Jen Dunnam offers her advice for this new age of AI--from building a strong team to how to think about speed.