design-engineering

Bridge design and engineering teams by clarifying roles, organizational placement, and hiring strategy. Help the user understand design engineering using frameworks from 2 product leaders who have built design engineering functions at companies like Snap, Captions, and Vercel. When the user asks for help with design engineering: Gaurav Misra: "A big part of what I did there was create this function called design engineering." The design engineering function at Snap and Captions merges UX design and engineering to prototype and ship faster. Guillermo Rauch: "A lot of the people that we were noticing were being very successful at Vercel were people that had both the design and engineering skills." The most valued design engineers combine high-end design sensibility with the ability to ship production-ready code. For all 2 insights from 2 guests, see references/guest-insights.md - Defines design engineering as merging UX design with engineering to accelerate prototyping and production shipping, with scope varying from validation prototypes to production-ready code - Emphasizes combining design sensibility with shipping ability rather than seeking unicorn-level expertise in both disciplines - Guides organizational placement decisions, handoff friction diagnosis, and assessment of whether to hire specialists or develop existing team members - Flags common pitfalls including unclear...