Designing for the Journey

The text discusses the importance of collaboration between designers and engineers in a highly technical company. It highlights how building meaningful relationships across teams can lead to successful product designs. The author shares their personal experience of transitioning from being territorial about UX design to relying on engineering counterparts for shaping and realizing the UX vision. They emphasize that product designers have a unique vantage point within an organization, synthesizing pain points, needs, and business challenges across multiple units. The text also explores the challenges faced by designers in fixing failures in distributed systems and how these constraints can impact their career growth. Finally, it introduces Temporal, a startup aiming to change the way developers build applications, which offers an opportunity for designers to work on innovative projects without being hindered by complexities of distributed systems.