Post #1175689

2026-04-14 12:42 UTC

✍️ New post: Design and Engineering, As One A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident. https://matthiasott.com/articles/design-and-engineering-as-one

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@tylersticka@social.lol 2026-04-14 17:08

@matthiasott@mastodon.social *Love* this one, Matthias

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@koos@mastodon.green 2026-04-14 19:26

@matthiasott@mastodon.social nice one! Although I studied industrial design engineering, after switching to web stuff it took me long to realize that I still am a design engineer. Many orgs incentivize or even force making a clear choice between design and engineering. They just want replaceable robots. It’s time to make design engineering a thing in web design!

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@cagataygedik@mastodon.social 2026-04-14 21:28

@matthiasott@mastodon.social I read your articles for the first time and I absolutely loved it. I think most of what you said applies to iOS or Android as well; it makes me feel like we need design engineers on our app side too.

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@ollicle@mastodon.social 2026-04-15 01:25

@matthiasott@mastodon.social @tylersticka@social.lol dreaming of a Bauhaus for the web

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@mhp@mastodon.social 2026-04-15 17:55

@matthiasott@mastodon.social I've been thinking about software in the Bauhaus tradition on and off for a while now, and this cleanly gets to the heart of it. Thanks for writing it!

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@damianwalsh@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 09:38

@matthiasott@mastodon.social Hits the nail squarely on the head. But I can’t help feeling a bit sad the role needs to be paired with another discipline to legitimise it (see also Product Designer). Adding another specialism seems to add to the general confusion and fragmentation. Maybe I’m getting old, but Web/Digital/Interaction Designer used to be reasonably well understood/respected/compensated catch-alls. Businesses could hire for it and know the person would understand the medium they were working with.

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@crimann@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 09:39

@matthiasott@mastodon.social This is so good, love it! Thanks, Matthias.

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@ctietze@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 10:34

@matthiasott@mastodon.social the heck :)

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@mrtnvh@techhub.social 2026-04-17 04:35

@matthiasott@mastodon.social Yes, yes, yes! Amazing write-up, thank you for this!

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