Karl Koch | Principles for building a design engineering practice
The principles shaping how we're building the design engineering practice at DuckDuckGo, from shared ownership and trust to speed, craft, and repeatable quality.
I’m building out the design engineering practice at DuckDuckGo. It’s a small team right now, and we’re hiring our second person to help shape the practice and lead it with me. That might sound early for a set of principles, but I think it’s exactly the right time. The decisions we make now will become the habits, expectations and quality bar for everyone who joins later. I wanted to put down how we’ll approach some of the problems we’re trying to solve: handovers between design and engineering, a lack of shared knowledge across that boundary, AI-generated solutions that aren’t properly…
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