# The Invisible Side of Design Engineering

Essay by Jakub Krehel (https://jakub.kr)

A look at the invisible side of design engineering.

Topics: Craft
Source: https://jakub.kr/writing/the-invisible-side-of-design-engineering

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Skills in this library that act on the same ground:

- emil-design-eng (https://stackskills.dev/md/emil-design-eng): The design-engineering house style behind Sonner and Vaul.
- prototype (https://stackskills.dev/md/prototype): Builds several genuinely different UI variants behind a live picker.
- apple-design (https://stackskills.dev/md/apple-design): Apple's interface and motion principles, translated for the web.
- better-ui (https://stackskills.dev/md/better-ui): Concentric radius, optical alignment, surface depth, hit areas.
- better-interface (https://stackskills.dev/md/better-interface): Every better-* skill as a single review pass.

## The short version

Judged by social media the role looks like animated eye candy, which is well wide of the mark. What design engineering actually involves, and why ten people give ten definitions.

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