August 29, 2024 Often when you work as an engineer on a small team, you don't have dedicated designers on staff. How can you deliver beautiful, intuitive software, without designers? Here's a trick that helps me: decoupling my design work from my engineering work. But first: I love designers! An expert designer is one of the most vital people in an engineering organization. I'm not a designer. Great designers are rare, which is why, for much of my career, I haven't had one. Decoupling design fro...