What engineers can learn from designers

Chapters

1. 01Design is engineering with different materialsWhat a designer actually does, and why the hard part of a product is finding its nouns and verbs.0:26
2. 02Why she still starts with pen and paperMaggie prototypes agentic tools for a living, but the first sketch is always by hand. Agents can't see.2:57
3. 03What a design engineer really isNot a hover-effect specialist. And why the old designer–engineer friction was a failure of tools.4:50
4. 04Build your own Figma, one slider at a timeMock up roughly in Figma, then have an agent build a jig: live sliders for every value you're unsure of.7:27
5. 05Do engineers still need designers?Twenty generated mockups aren't a designer, and the aesthetic every agent reaches for is becoming a tell.9:58
6. 06What engineers can take from designUse an agent as a patient design tutor, and go and live with your users the way an anthropologist would.12:43