David Darnes asks: Is 2025 the Year of the ‘Design Engineer’? It’s arguably a bit of a new term and being used more and more as a job title. Like most job titles, it doesn’t have the strongest agreed upon definition, but it’s honing in around the front end and essentially a designer who can get the job done.
A very common answer came up: someone who straddles or bridges the gap between design and development. Someone who can translate for both sides of the coin and also work alongside those parties to achieve the best result for all involved.
You can see respected companies take it seriously like Stripe and Vercel. Maggie Appleton has gathered a group of people who typify it.
