The Midnight Redesign

Ryan and Brittany talk in a quiet corner of their office in Denver about the struggles of delegating design work.

The Midnight Redesign

Listen and choose the right answer

Why did Brittany promote Ryan to lead the onboarding project?

• To test if he could work late nights
• To empower designers and push decisions down to the team
• To let him redesign the entire mobile app alone

What did Ryan do the previous night?

• He stayed up late secretly rewriting the team's navigation flows
• He deleted the Figma file by accident
• He argued with a junior designer about spacing

How did Brittany react when she heard about Ryan's midnight work?

• She praised his dedication to the client
• She told him not to micromanage if they want a high-trust culture
• She asked him to do the same for the next project

What happened when Brittany made the same mistake in Austin?

• She was fired by the company executives
• A junior designer named Chloe confronted her about her secret edits
• The client rejected her hidden redesign

Listen again and complete the sentences

• Brittany: How's it going? I made you lead this project because I wanted to ____ and push decisions down to the team.
• Brittany: What do you mean? Aren't they showing enough ____ during the daily syncs?
• Brittany: You did what? Ryan, you can't ____ them like that if we want to build a high-trust culture here.
• Brittany: If you don't ____ and allow mistakes, nobody will ever take real ownership of the product.
• Brittany: It was the best thing that ever happened to my management style. I finally learned to ____ properly.

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