Component Encyclopedia | Storybook
Winamp Skin Museum
WPDS Documentation & Resources
All Websites — Siteinspire
🌚 Every Project Self Aware’s Ever Charged For
Varyer Studio
Accessibility Checklist - The A11Y Project
Angello Torres at Fonts in Use
2021 Design Tools Survey
Jan van den Hemel on Twitter
A Collection of Design Engineers
Design Engineer is the latest label we're chucking onto the pile of obfuscatory design titles alongside interface designer, interaction designer, software designer, web designer, product designer, design systems architect, UI/UX designer, UX engineer, UI engineer, and front-of-the-front-end engineer.
Throwing this extra label onto the pile feels necessary though. Design engineer captures something simple, important, and worth distinguishing: a person who sits squarely at the intersection of design and engineering, and works to bridge the gap between them.
They're people who know how to run a design process to decide how something should work, look, and feel, and have the engineering chops to implement it. They can quickly iterate on ideas by cycling between design exploration, research, and live code. The skillset is ideal for prototyping, exploratory interaction design, and building robust design systems.
Most from a small set of companies like Vercel, Linear, The Browser Company and Replit, known for their attention to interface design detail and slick product interactions, who are clearly encouraging and cultivating design-engineer hybrids.
People are incentivised to only share their sexy, shiny, flawless creations, rather than their messy process or shameful failures. Some of the especially tedious and labourious work isn't easily shareable, such as advocating for robust design systems and cleaning up legacy code.
I am not under any illusions that these public works constitute the entirety of what design engineers create or spend all day making. I'm sure some spend their days “aligning stakeholders,” buried under a mountain of strategic documents and trapped by heirarchical approval chains. Say a small prayer for them.
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Startup CEO records entire meeting with designer *Live Footage*
Navigator - Colin Dunn
Firefox Brand – Mozilla Dot Design
AXIOM SPACE - brand identity, guideline and assets.
How to Do Everything
Discussion of Expert Generalists
Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace - The Verge
Google discovered the key to good teamwork is being nice — Quartz at Work
On the Internet’s Next Act | steve cheney – technology, business & strategy
Why editorial illustrations look so similar these days — Quartzy
The magic that makes Spotify's Discover Weekly playlists so damn good — Quartz
Aperture: Senior QA (2004-2005) – Tech Reflect
Interface Aesthetics - An Introduction - Rhizome
Nevertheless, the interface pushes back with its prescribed methodologies, workflows, and limitations. Interface and artist are an antagonistic pair. Perhaps the best description of the polemic between the two is one of productive cannibalism. Just as the interface evolves under the pressure of innovation to accommodate new pragmatic uses, the artists’ will continue to deconstruct and push its aesthetic and behavioral properties to their limits.
A personal view on entry level roles in an ad agency : advertising
Wonder Blocks: on the creation of Khan Academy’s Design System
The Interface comes to an end | Revue
From Gut to Plan: The Thoughtful Execution Framework | Spotify Design
Systems, Mistakes, and the Sea › Robin Rendle