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PRINCIPLES FOR BUILDING A DESIGN ENGINEERING PRACTICE

karlkoch.me3 min read

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Six principles set the quality bar for a design engineering practice being built at DuckDuckGo, where the team is still small and hiring its second member. They cover understanding problems before making, owning the experience past handoff, making trust effortless, reducing scope rather than quality, finishing every state, and making craft repeatable. Moving fast by making less, better is the one expected to be tested most often.