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What happens when a designer stops handing off designs to developers and starts working with code?
I talked about exactly that in my new lecture on Design Engineering with Projector Institute š
We cover:
ā what a Design Engineer actually does
ā how the role is changing
ā AI agents, Git, GitHub & Vercel
ā working with code in practice
ā accessibility & design systems
ā real failures and lessons learned
For designers who want to go beyond Figma and build working products.
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