
Vercel’s Glenn Hitchcock & John Pham - Design engineering deep dive
About this episode
Over the last few months, design engineering has by far been the #1 most requested topic. So I wanted to get the inside scoop from the team at Vercel to learn more. In this episode we get to hear from:
1. Glenn Hitchcock - https://twitter.com/glennui (Director of design engineering)
2. John Pham - https://twitter.com/JohnPhamous (Lead design engineer)
The goal of this conversation is to help people understand the role that design engineers play and to outline a path you can take to develop some of these skills. We talk about:
- The strategy behind Vercel’s new website
- Why Vercel built a design engineering team
- How designers collaborate with design engineers
- What Vercel looks for when hiring design engineers
- How Vercel is always building with re-usability in mind
- + a lot more - Maggie Appleton’s quote on software creation from our group interview
- https://anthonyhobday.com/blog/20240122.html
- Framer components - https://drams.framer.website/ (inspired by Dieter Rams’ design principles)
- Screwball scramble - https://us.tomy.com/screwball-scramble/
- Dead Simple Sites - https://deadsimplesites.com/
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