[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":44},["ShallowReactive",2],{"writing-design-engineering-new-product-design":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"cover":14,"description":15,"extension":16,"figures":14,"inShort":17,"meta":18,"navigation":19,"path":20,"readMinutes":14,"related":21,"seo":28,"stem":29,"takeaways":30,"__hash__":43},"writing\u002Fwriting\u002Fdesign-engineering-new-product-design.md","Design Engineering New Product Design",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":9},"minimark",[],{"title":10,"searchDepth":11,"depth":12,"links":13},"",2,0,[],null,"Summary of Jinson Johny's HackerNoon article arguing that design engineering is becoming central again as AI lowers the cost of building, and how his enterprise team moved designers into Storybook.","md","Jinson Johny argues that design engineering, the role between design and implementation, is becoming central again now that AI makes building cheap. Drawing on his own enterprise team, he describes moving from design handoffs to designers working inside Storybook as the source of truth, with small reusable AI skills automating steps such as mapping Figma tokens to code.",{},true,"\u002Fwriting\u002Fdesign-engineering-new-product-design",[22,25],{"label":23,"href":24},"AI is changing how we ideate, design and build user interfaces · HackerNoon","\u002Fwriting\u002Fai-changing-ui-design",{"label":26,"href":27},"Deck: the plugin from the author bio","\u002Fproducts\u002Fdeck",{"description":15},"writing\u002Fdesign-engineering-new-product-design",[31,34,37,40],{"lead":32,"text":33},"Not a designer who codes","design engineering is a position between design and engineering that shortens the path from a design decision to shipped product.",{"lead":35,"text":36},"Generate-and-ship didn't hold up","in a large organisation with governance and accessibility needs, what worked was bringing designers into development, with Storybook as the source of truth.",{"lead":38,"text":39},"Skills, written once","small markdown instruction sets automate repeated workflow steps, such as Figma-to-Storybook token mapping, for the whole team.",{"lead":41,"text":42},"Judgement stays human","AI produces interfaces quickly, but decisions about users, accessibility and long-term consistency remain the designer's job.","H_rYxmVa5CpVZ99EqTtctnfIzxwZJztd6jt9CzN342w",1793655448737]