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Oh man how do I find someone like this. As a backend/infra dev I respect, fear and loath (in the reverse order) css. If you can find your complement(s) there

Oh man how do I find someone like this. As a backend/infra dev I respect, fear and loath (in the reverse order) css. If you can find your complement(s) there is nothing like it!

throwawayai2 3y ago
As a designer who know how to code, I would love to know how to find a job like this.
- filoleg 3y ago
  Not sure about today (since I don't work there anymore), but my org at Microsoft back about 5 years ago had a role that was pretty much like what this comment chain is talking about. IIRC they called it "design engineer". Not sure where in the org structure they fell under (i.e., whether they reported to design managers or engineering managers, i think it might've been under engineering managers), but I worked with a few of them directly, and it was amazing. I was working on the front-end of a web app, so I did quite a bit of design implementation handed to me by designers. But for some very tricky styling or just in general, occasionally, design engineers would come out to help.
- e-_pusher 3y ago
  My company is big on hiring designers who can code. We are in the humane tech / hw / AI space. My email is in my profile, feel free to reach out if interested!
mortenjorck 3y ago
I've tried to move toward this kind of arrangement in the past, but have never quite broken through. While I'm fluent in HTML/CSS, the major obstacle to actually committing code as a UX/UI designer has been the codebase itself. I can pop open a web inspector and make a bunch of changes, but that's the easy part. Unlike when I'm working on my own, far simpler side projects, I can't just switch over to VS Code and paste the changes in to the requisite selectors: Assuming I have a local environment set up (no easy feat itself!), now I have to track down React components, find their stylesheets, perhaps follow some leads out to other stylesheets coming from different libraries... It's all something I'd love to get to a point of familiarity with in my next job (which I am currently looking for!), but the upfront time investment (in part by the developer to explain the repo to me) has kept it just out of reach so far.
- tough 3y ago
  I find jumping at new codebases highly rewarding, somewhat getting to peel the onion by yourself is the best way to get familiar with it. You could use AI tools to emulate a co-worker putting you up to speed probably nowadays.
brightball 3y ago
Learn tailwind and read their design book.

Oh man how do I find someone like this. As a backend/infra dev I respect, fear and loath (in the reverse order) css. If you can find your complement(s) there is nothing like it!

throwawayai2 3y ago

As a designer who know how to code, I would love to know how to find a job like this.

filoleg 3y ago
Not sure about today (since I don't work there anymore), but my org at Microsoft back about 5 years ago had a role that was pretty much like what this comment chain is talking about. IIRC they called it "design engineer". Not sure where in the org structure they fell under (i.e., whether they reported to design managers or engineering managers, i think it might've been under engineering managers), but I worked with a few of them directly, and it was amazing. I was working on the front-end of a web app, so I did quite a bit of design implementation handed to me by designers. But for some very tricky styling or just in general, occasionally, design engineers would come out to help.
e-_pusher 3y ago
My company is big on hiring designers who can code. We are in the humane tech / hw / AI space. My email is in my profile, feel free to reach out if interested!

mortenjorck 3y ago

I've tried to move toward this kind of arrangement in the past, but have never quite broken through. While I'm fluent in HTML/CSS, the major obstacle to actually committing code as a UX/UI designer has been the codebase itself. I can pop open a web inspector and make a bunch of changes, but that's the easy part. Unlike when I'm working on my own, far simpler side projects, I can't just switch over to VS Code and paste the changes in to the requisite selectors: Assuming I have a local environment set up (no easy feat itself!), now I have to track down React components, find their stylesheets, perhaps follow some leads out to other stylesheets coming from different libraries... It's all something I'd love to get to a point of familiarity with in my next job (which I am currently looking for!), but the upfront time investment (in part by the developer to explain the repo to me) has kept it just out of reach so far.

tough 3y ago
I find jumping at new codebases highly rewarding, somewhat getting to peel the onion by yourself is the best way to get familiar with it. You could use AI tools to emulate a co-worker putting you up to speed probably nowadays.

brightball 3y ago

Learn tailwind and read their design book.