Design Engineering: The next era of Software Design
summary
Argues that design engineering means shipping production code as well as visuals, showing concrete outputs: a new accessible signup flow deployed to production, GitHub variable fonts (Mona Sands) and Storybook components, and prototyping tools like GitHub Spark and Copilot used to build Co‑pilot Workspace. Calls out AI challenges that matter now: nondeterministic LLM outputs, rapid model releases and the “model maximalism” tradeoff, and performance and accessibility work required to make creative front‑end animations actually usable.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 12:32Web design evolution
- 21:11The Great Divide roles
- 23:03AI impact on design
- 27:22What is design engineering
- 34:07Becoming a design engineer
- 39:06Human creativity with AI
- 47:42Future of software design
- 50:54Conclusion
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