{"id":845,"date":"2024-02-14T12:42:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T18:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=845"},"modified":"2024-02-14T12:42:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T18:42:25","slug":"the-case-for-design-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/the-case-for-design-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case For Design Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I like the case Jim Nielsen makes <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jim-nielsen.com\/2024\/the-case-for-design-engineers-pt-ii\/\">here in Part 2<\/a> of his series on why a role of &#8220;Design Engineer&#8221; makes a lot of sense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>You\u2019re given a design with a note: the dividing line between these two containers should be interactive so the user can drag to resize the respective containers on either side.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;re picking up on this around here, but I&#8217;m pretty big on <em>asking all the right questions<\/em> as an important part of your journey to &#8220;senior&#8221; in any role. With this small design note (or mockup), there are definitely going to be questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Does the interaction have a resize affordance?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How does it happen (e.g. on mouse in or mouse down)?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When does it happen (e.g. immediately or on a delay)?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where does it happen? Directly on the line itself, or in a target area? How big is the target?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Is there some kind of snapping involved?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe you answer them yourself, but you&#8217;re thinking about them. In this case, in order to ask and answer these questions, you need someone who is saavy in design\/UX <em>and<\/em> coding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the case Jim Nielsen makes here in Part 2 of his series on why a role of &#8220;Design Engineer&#8221; makes a lot of sense. You\u2019re given a design with a note: the dividing line between these two containers should be interactive so the user can drag to resize the respective containers on either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":846,"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-845","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\/02\/resize-thumb.jpg?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}