Companies are losing designers to engineering en masse as design and engineering merge into one role
yakuzeg · x · 2026-09-06
Citing the view that "design and engineering will become one role," vanschneider reports that seniors at multiple companies are losing designers to engineering in droves because everyone now wants to build and ship.
As a result, companies are desperately hunting for big-picture design thinkers, who have become insanely rare and valuable.
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