design-engineer-mindset

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The Design Engineer is a unified role that bridges the traditional gap between design and implementation. Unlike a designer who hands off static mockups, or a developer who approximates designs, the Design Engineer understands that the medium of digital design is code.

This skill teaches you to think like a design engineer: understanding rendering pipelines, animation performance, and the physics of the browser as your design material.

Result: The final product never matches the design. Subtle animations are removed. Spacing is approximated. Interactions feel wrong.

Understand the Design Engineer role - bridging design and implementation. Learn to think about design as code, understand rendering pipelines, optimize animation performance, and ensure design fidelity through implementation. Use when translating designs to code, optimizing performance, or ensuring quality through development. Source: sanky369/vibe-building-skills.

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