Design engineering: when a designer works in code
~12 min read
I studied to become a web and mobile developer, but ended up spending nine years in UX design without writing code. AI has now made programming so much more approachable that going back to code feels natural. In this post, I explain what the design engineer role means in practice, which skills matter more than coding, and how a designer can support developers' work.
- Design engineering
- AI tools
- Design systems