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Roberto Rodríguez Gijón

Recently, I’ve been delving into the role of the “design engineer” and have created a map to better understand this discipline, the concepts it encompasses, and its relationship with other fields.

Taurean Bryant
Replying to @robertoerrege

This is a cool idea. Have you given thought to what you might consider explicitly _outside_ the scope of design engineering?

Roberto Rodríguez Gijón
Replying to @taurean

Yes, I did. for example, design systems is almost completely in the head of a design engineer but still needs a bit collaboration with engineering that’s why the bubble slightly exceeds the scope of design engineering.

Roberto Rodríguez Gijón
Replying to @taurean

Also, certain concepts like functional constraints and tokens extend outside the user experience bubble.

Taurean Bryant
Replying to @robertoerrege

ah I see. It seemed like all of the actual tasks/responsibilities sit inside of design engineering here though, or am I misreading that? Like what would be a UX task that _design engineers_ explicitly don't do? or Engineers?

Taurean Bryant
Replying to @robertoerrege

Once you add up the role expectations from a few different employers, you wind up needing to be proficient at everything from UX research to full-stack development. I think it would be useful to draw an explicit line in the sand on where the expected expertise should end.