MY VIEW ON DESIGN ENGINEERING

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

A design engineer's real role isn't simply being a designer who codes or a developer with design skills—it's owning product coherence across the gap between design and development. As AI makes creating interfaces faster, the biggest challenge becomes maintaining consistency, handling edge cases, refining interactions, and making the countless judgment calls that determine whether a product feels polished and intentional rather than fragmented. Ultimately, design engineers act as translators, custodians of quality, and curators of taste, ensuring the shipped product remains cohesive even as teams, tools, and codebases evolve.