Interested in how to kickstart and scale design engineering in your organization? Check out the latest episode with Steve Saul!
There's been a lot of buzz around the design engineer role lately, but not much on how it works at scale. Steve Saul, Design Engineer Manager at Meta, shares his insights on scaling design engineering. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/etyPRcbS #management #uxengineer #scalability
The Importance of Collaboration in Product Engineering 👨💻 Collaboration is essential in product engineering. From the initial concept to the final product, a team effort brings designers, engineers, and stakeholders together to solve complex problems. A more open and collaborative environment leads to faster innovation and product refinement, ensuring that the end products meet both business goals and user needs. #ProductEngineering #Innovation #EngineeringExcellence #ProductDesign #TechDevelopment #FutureReady
⭐️My career in tech for the last 8 years has primarily been male dominated and finding my way has been a journey. These tips n tricks have helped me find my voice as a product designer. 💡 Navigating the Realm of Product Design in an Engineering-centric Environment💡 In the realm of product design, particularly within engineering-focused companies, the landscape can be challenging, especially in teams with a female population of 1 — me. While there’s no shortage of articles addressing women in tech, my journey as a product designer has often felt like charting unexplored territory. But I’m not here to complain. Instead, I want to share my experiences and insights, offering tips to elevate the role of design within your teams and drive product development forward. Design or design thinking is still a relatively new concept for many, often reduced to merely “can you make this look good?”🥹. But in reality, we should be leading a dynamic process involving customer engagement, identifying pain points, solution crafting with product managers and engineers, and iterative refinement based on feedback. This cycle, epitomized by Build-Measure-Learn, which places design at its core. ➡️ However, the reality often diverges and I’ve frequently found myself sidelined or input disregarded. In my fair share of being talked over or dismissed in meetings, it’s not an enjoyable experience, but through trial and error I have used these tricks to have my voice be heard. 🚀 Take 2 minutes to read my story here ⬇️ #womenintech #productdesign
In the fast-paced world of product development, if your designers and engineers aren't working together from the very inception of your product, you're doing it wrong. At M3, we've always emphasized the importance of design and engineering teams working together under the same roof, here's why: 💡 Seamless Integration from Concept to Reality When designers and engineers collaborate from day one, it's like a well-oiled machine. Ideas flow freely, and feasibility is considered right alongside innovation. This seamless integration ensures that our design concepts aren't just concepts -- they become tangible, market-ready solutions. 🔍 Spotting Pitfalls Before They Trip Us Up Having both teams involved early on means we can identify potential roadblocks before they derail us. Whether it's manufacturing constraints or regulatory hurdles, our combined expertise allows us to navigate these with ease to ensure they don't disrupt the PD process. 📈 Accelerating Time to Market Simply put, we're faster together. With designers and engineers working hand in hand, our development cycles become shorter and more efficient. Ideas are refined, prototypes are perfected, and products hit the market faster. Want to learn more? Check out the article linked in the comments ↓
What does an ideal design system team look like? No surprise: a cross-functional design system team should look exactly like your organization’s typical cross-functional product teams. This signals to the rest of the organization that design system teams have their own products and features to maintain and should be staffed as such.
By bridging the gap between idea and reality, we ensure that form and function go hand-in-hand for every product we develop. Translating complex concepts into tangible prototypes is part of our day-to-day desig and development life. #prototypedevelopment #mechanicaldesign #functionaldesign
Its easy to have an idea, But execution is the key to success. 💡👣 As a design Engineer, I've come to realize that while ideas are easy to generate, it's the execution that truly sets successful products apart. Great execution demands: 🔹 Attention to detail 🔹 Unwavering dedication 🔹 Continuous iteration 🔹 Responsive feedback loops It's not just about what you envision, but how you bring that vision to life. Every pixel, every interaction, every user experience matters. We’ve had the privilege to partner with businesses across various industries, turning their unique ideas to reality and helping them achieve their goals. Don't Let your idea to die without seeing the world. We are here to give the pulse for your product. #ProductDesign #Innovation #ExecutionIsKey #DesignThinking #CollaborativeDesign #Engineering
🔥 Watch the fireside chat from Reliability @Scale 2024 and explore the evolution of Production Engineering and Reliability over the past decade! Our panelists, including the Engineering Director at Meta, Francois Richard, VP of Product Engineering at Meta, Peter Hoose, and Chief Technology Officer at 1Password, Pedro Canahuati, will share their insights on how the role of Production Engineering has adapted to meet the challenges of scale, complexity, and emerging technologies. From the early days of ensuring reliability to the present focus on configuration safety and automated checks, our panelists will discuss the key lessons learned and how the role of PEs has helped drive the success Meta has seen over the past decade. They'll also delve into the importance of balancing speed and safety in deployment processes, and how this balance is crucial for maintaining reliability at scale. 🌐 As we look to the future, our panelists will share their thoughts on the emerging trends and technologies that will require new approaches to Reliability and Production Engineering, and how we can better collaborate across teams and organizations to improve Reliability. 🎙️ Tune in now: https://lnkd.in/gPXRZz75
In engineering, creativity is not just about artistic expression but about functional and practical design, optimizing resources, enhancing user experience, and pushing the boundaries of what is possible. It often involves interdisciplinary thinking, blending elements of science, technology, and design to achieve unique solutions.
"but I'm not ready to order prototypes yet!" I have worked with some engineers that are stuck in the analysis mindset, trying to optimize every feature before they build a prototype.... Meanwhile, younger (inexperienced) engineers are buying prototypes long before they "should" but they are building, testing, and learning. They're making visible (forward) progress. Many times you don't need more design/analysis time. You just need to build a few more iterations. Start prototyping early, and iterate often. Take notes on what is working and what needs changing. Only work on what needs changing. Begin prototyping as soon as possible and iterate/improve frequently to gather feedback and improve designs. #engineering #design #rapidprototyping #fastbuildlabs
This presentation by Jane Austin was incredibly insightful for developing companies facing the monumentous task of the product development. Encorperating design within an agile development process is an intial struggle and Jane explains this strategic thinking of how design assists to influences the development process. Interaction design reseach is important, understanding the inclusion and definition towards connecting end-user requirements with a cleaner and aglie approach for better and future product development.
