@jenniesyip 100% agreed. The design world obsesses over the output/artifacts, but imo, it’s time to invest in the design systems and expand it into infrastructure. Id love to see more Eng-background design leaders in the coming years too:)
FYI true design engineers know what kind of interactions and animations fit in the existing surfaces. You don’t just add in a fancy new popver menu animation to 2010 looking old school design software. Unity is taste too.
@jshguo Do you think theres now a new layer of design tho? Like your vibe design tool. It’s like shaping up an experience to work with AI. It looks like engineering work because we use code to regulate its behaviors but it’s more of UX design imo.
@rogie This is deep man. AI gave us almost infinite amount of options to work with. The new world might be we all work in our own way but aggregate the outputs. There’s something quite jazz about it.
@tomjohndesign Oh man typography. Fonts/typefaces in general. Knowing the side bearings, ascender/descender and all that is gonna be a differentiator. It’s beyond CSS calculations and so optical. AI can’t see that nuance (yet).