In Practice: 1/3 Design is Blending with Engineering Talent Designers surveyed had formal engineering/science training In the 2016 Design in Tech Report we shared how 1/3 of the design leaders we surveyed 2/5 had formal engineering/science training. It said to me that a considerable amount of “hybrid” talent is out there in the professional world, that wasn’t the case a few decades ago. Last month I surveyed a group of designers and devs at Automattic (note the double-T) with Designers are involved in code development regards to their Javascript expertise. In the graph below you can see two “humps” — to the right is the developers, but to the left is the designers. * Since 2015, WordPress developers have been encouraged to master Javascript from WP’s native PHP. SOURCE BEGINNER “I can read fluently, but I MASTER NEA Future of Design Survey 2016 can't write fluently.” @NEA @daynagrayson @automattic @photomatt Section 1: Computational Design 10