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Business has never needed designers more than now, but are designers ready?

Book Cover of Big Things are Coming.

The last decade has seen a decline in the value of design in corporations, with most businesses focused one-dimensionally on shareholder value at the expense of their core services and workforce, leaving US customer experience satisfaction at all time lows.

As we enter the era of AI, today’s market leaders are unaware that they have never been more vulnerable to losing their customers, workforce and market share.

This is the moment for product design leaders to reset and become the driving force to transform their organizations into leaders in the era of AI.

Topics include:

  • The end of customer-centricity
  • Why Design Thinking fell flat in organizations
  • Using Figma for component design systems can cost business from $10k's to $1MM's
  • The three dimensions that product design leaders must prepare for with AI - Organization, Experience, and Design
  • The case for design to own front-end code
  • Organizations never truly transformed to be prepared for the digital age, and are still siloed and unprepared to adopt AI at scale
  • How agentic AI will fundamentally disrupt the 1-1 relationship brands have with customers
  • How to reset the value of design in your business
  • Quantifying empathy

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Early praise for Big Things are Coming.

Sara Korba

“This is essential reading for anyone navigating the profound changes that are rapidly transforming the way we work”


Sara Korba Design Leader, Google
Josh Nard

“Steve’s book comes at an urgent time to offer a clear focus in navigating today’s product teams, helping leaders respond to shifting team dynamics and evolving consumer demands"


Josh Nard Head of Enterprise Design, TIAA
Joshua Teixeira

“This isn’t just more AI hype. It’s a prescient look into the changes organizations will need to make to harness the power of this moment.”


Josh Teixeira Experience Design Leader, (IBM, Fantasy, Digitas)
Naomi Minnich

“A truly inspiring read. Big Things Are Coming serves as a guiding light for Designers.”


Naomi Minnich Design Leader, Fortune 25 Company

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About the Author

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Stephen Fritz

An accomplished Product Design Leader with over 20 years of experience, Stephen has been leading companies through radical transformation throughout the digital age.

Stephen founded Neon Navy to assist Design leaders guide their teams and organizations into the age of AI and automation.

Previously, Stephen led global teams at enterprise companies such as IBM, JPMorgan Chase, BT Global Services, Cognizant, and PepsiCo in their evolution to data-driven, human-centered, agile businesses at scale. While at IBM, he led the conception of IBM’s first full-stack component design system (now Carbon Design System), helping to usher in the age of product development with component design systems.

Steve began his career as leadership in one of the first global digital agencies working with businesses like Chase, Merrill Lynch, Siemens, and Valvoline establish their first online presence. Later he co-founded a digital agency named Olive that helped entertainment companies such as AMC Media (AMC, iFC, WE, Fuse), Viacom, Electra records and SONY shape their strategies to the emergence of digital downloads and streaming media.

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