GoKawiilGitHub Next engineer Maggie defines the 'design engineer' role at Granola meetup
Speaking at a Granola-hosted meetup for design engineers, Maggie, a Staff Research Engineer at GitHub Next, described her career path through illustration, art direction, UX/UI and product design before landing in a hybrid research-engineer role. She argued that design engineering should not be reduced to flashy micro-interactions, but instead means designers who understand software's technical materials—state, data flow, databases, APIs, auth and latency—and who act as a bridge between design and engineering teams.