✍️ New post: Design and Engineering, As One

A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident.

https://matthiasott.com/articles/design-and-engineering-as-one

Design and Engineering, As One · Matthias Ott

We inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, most digital product teams are still running on that model. The gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident. It was designed in. And it can be designed out.

Matthias Ott – Web Design Engineer
@matthiasott I read your articles for the first time and I absolutely loved it. I think most of what you said applies to iOS or Android as well; it makes me feel like we need design engineers on our app side too.
@cagataygedik Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! 🤗 Yes, you’re right – this is equally true for other areas of digital design (engineering).