Resources

Curated references, courses, tools, and communities for learning the craft of design engineering.

References & reading

• Details that make interfaces feel better — article (Jakub Krehel).¹⁰
• Craft of UI — Practical Playbook — snippets.¹⁰
• Making Software — Technical Reference Manual — ebook.¹⁰
• interfaces.dev — Design Engineering Magazine, articles.¹⁰

Courses

• Devouring Details — course on interaction craft.¹⁰
• "Design for Developers" (e.g. Sarah Drasner) — composition, hierarchy, color from an engineering perspective.²

Tools

• designengineer.tools — directory of resources, tools, and portfolios for design engineers.
• oklch.fyi — learn the OKLCH color model.¹⁰
• AI-native build tools: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, v0.dev, Magic Patterns, Bolt.new, Windsurf — see Design Engineering in the Age of AI.²
• Open-source design systems for practice: Radix UI, shadcn/ui.²

Skills & LLM references

• ui-skills.com — Design Engineer LLM skills.¹⁰
• Design Engineering Skill — a curated LLM skill document held in /raw.¹⁴

Communities & job boards

• designsystems.jobs and designengineer.io — role-specific job boards.¹
• The Design Society — networking and knowledge sharing.¹

Design Engineers

Curated list of notable design engineers and their portfolios.⁹

• Jakub Krehel
• Emil Kowalski
• Rauno Freiberg
• Ricky Zhang
• Dan Hollick
• Jhey Tompkins
• Ryo Lu
• Gabriel Obholz