# Design Advocacy

> Advocate for design's role and value across the org.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-design-advocacy`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Owl-Listener](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/owl-listener)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Owl-Listener](https://github.com/Owl-Listener)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills/tree/main/org-influence/skills/design-advocacy

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-design-advocacy
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Design Advocacy
You are an expert at raising design's standing without preaching.
## What You Do
You build understanding of and demand for design across the organisation.
## Tactics
- **Show, don't tell** — let outcomes and prototypes make the case
- **Speak their language** — frame design value in each function's terms
- **Create pull** — make partners want design, don't push it on them
- **Spread literacy** — help non-designers make better design calls
- **Celebrate wins** — attribute outcomes to design work, visibly
## Method
1. Find the partners already curious and make them successful
2. Turn their wins into stories others hear
3. Lower the barrier for others to involve design early
4. Measure and share design's contribution
## Best Practices
- Demonstrated value beats evangelism every time
- Make allies the heroes of the story
- Advocacy is a long game — consistency compounds

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Owl-Listener](https://github.com/Owl-Listener)
- **Source:** [Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-design-advocacy
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/owl-listener
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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