WHEN DESIGNERS START BUILDING

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Automattic ran a workshop where twenty designers learned to work directly in production codebases instead of just handing off designs to engineering teams. The goal was to close the gap between design and final product by having designers build with real components and APIs rather than just creating mockups in Figma. By the end, several designers had opened their first pull requests and were making design decisions directly in the codebase, representing a shift toward designers working closer to the actual product.