Matthias OttApr 14

✍️ 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
Show threadChristian TietzeApr 16
@matthiasott the heck :)
Show threadMatthias OttApr 16
@ctietze Hope you also find the reset button 😂
Show threadChristian TietzeApr 16
@matthiasott did it store that from a previous session? I was terribly confused :D
Show threadMatthias OttApr 16
@ctietze Haha, I’m sorry. 😇 Yes, it saves the current state in localStorage, also to preserve the settings across pages. But I guess I should add a timeout so that people who played around with the mixer aren’t confused when they visit the site again after some time… 😅
Show threadAmelia Bellamy-Royds

@matthiasott I have had the same WTF reaction when visiting your website after playing around with it many months before, so a time-out on saved display settings might be helpful, yes.

(Also maybe a little QA to reduce the likelihood that extreme design settings make it impossible to open/collapse the style controls again. That was another issue!)

@ctietze

May 11 at 9:39pmWeb
Show threadMatthias Ott2d ago
@AmeliaBR @ctietze Thank you, Amelia! Yes, that makes sense and is something I’ll add next. 🤗