We believe that everyone is a designer. Because we hire generalists, there is no expectation that every project should start by running through design first. It is up to you when to involve our product designers in your work.

You should start by identifying the stage and goals of your project.

We encourage engineers to act like feature owners, carrying a project from ideation to completion. We maintain a design system in Storybook, so engineers can build high-quality features independently, as much as possible.

Because engineers choose their sprint tasks near the beginning of a sprint (and product doesn't plan tasks for engineers in advance), our process doesn't allow for us to have a product manager and a designer to work closely together before a task gets selected by an engineer.