{"id":1302,"date":"2024-03-18T08:54:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2024-03-18T08:54:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:54:17","slug":"design-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/design-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The job title &#8220;Design Engineer&#8221; has been having a moment. <a href=\"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/the-case-for-design-engineers\/\">I commented on Jim Nielsen&#8217;s takes<\/a> recently.  To me it makes a logical sense. The engineer aspect means they know the tech (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), and the design aspect means they are building and refining the look and experience. You don&#8217;t <em>have<\/em> to be both. The point of this role is that you <em>do<\/em> have this specific combination of skills and put it to good use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poking around big job posting sites, I do see it around used like this a bit (nice!) but it&#8217;s a more common term in the not-terribly-related field of mechanical engineering. I wouldn&#8217;t hate it to see it as &#8220;Web Design Engineer&#8221; when used officially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maggieappleton.com\/design-engineers\">Maggie Appleton has curated<\/a> a bunch of writing, and just as interesting, a group of actual people who typify the role and examples of their work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Design engineer<\/strong>&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel compelled to say that the kind of design engineering examples on display are what I see heaps of on CodePen every day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The job title &#8220;Design Engineer&#8221; has been having a moment. I commented on Jim Nielsen&#8217;s takes recently. To me it makes a logical sense. The engineer aspect means they know the tech (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), and the design aspect means they are building and refining the look and experience. You don&#8217;t have to be both. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-design"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/design-engineering-thumb.jpg?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}