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Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton

aired Sep 23, 2026 · 87.0m
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Summary

What makes for a great designer or a great design engineer and what can us software engineers learn from them?. Maggie Appleton is one of the most thoughtful design engineers I know.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, it's, design, including: Maggie Appleton is one of the most thoughtful design engineers I know.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Today we talk about what is a design engineer and why there's often a tension between engineering and design, the tools she's used before and now, and why pen and pencil is not goi
  2. 02Do you still need a designer when AI can generate 20 high fidelity prototypes?
  3. 03This episode is presented by TurboPuffer, Vector and Full Text Search built on object storage
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