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  "updated": "2026-08-12",
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      "Founder",
      "Principal Investigator",
      "User Experience AI Lead"
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      "Design Systems",
      "UX Leadership",
      "Product Design",
      "Design Team Scaling",
      "Enterprise Design"
    ],
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      "https://github.com/winzenburg",
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      "note": "Agent design as org design — ownership, authority, and operating boundaries."
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      "title": "How I Built an Enterprise Design System in 4 Weeks (Not 12 Months)",
      "url": "https://winzenburg.com/articles/design-system-4-weeks",
      "note": "First-person build story with concrete delivery outcomes."
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    {
      "title": "The AI-Powered Design Tech Stack",
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      "note": "Practitioner stack for AI-augmented design operations."
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    },
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      "note": "Enterprise and product case studies."
    },
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      "title": "Services",
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      "note": "Consulting offerings."
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      "note": "Five-phase AI-native design methodology."
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    },
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      "title": "Contact",
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      "note": "Inbound contact."
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      "note": "Structured identity facts (Person, ventures, sameAs)."
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      "note": "Full URL inventory for crawlers."
    },
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      "note": "Crawl policy including AI bots."
    }
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