Design Engineering

Design engineering is shared responsibility for the interface in production, not a relay race between finished mockups and ticketed implementation.

Defaults

1. Prefer handshakes over handovers: involve implementation constraints early.
2. Map design structure to code structure deliberately.
3. Prototype to learn; ship with production rigor.
4. Keep taste attached to materials knowledge (CSS, framework rendering, tokens, a11y).
5. Optimise for reduced translation loss between intent and implementation.

Translation map