It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks.

Include design earlier. Include engineering earlier. The split is the failure.

I often feel like I'm ping ponging between these two scenarios:

• "We would have caught this sooner if engineering was more involved in the design process".
• "We would have designed this differently if we knew engineering couldn't handle it"

At what point do we stop and realize that we are setting our teams up for failure?

Also this on looking for a job:

Am I going to find a place that will allow me to actually utilize all of this web design knowledge I have? Or, am I going to just be a JS engineer who spends most of my time configuring pipelines or doing ops work? I would say that most larger organizations favor the latter and live with the gaps in design.

That feels true to me. Orgs favor folks at the back-of-the-frontend and live with the gaps that result from that choice, hoping that when it comes to the front-of-the-frontend they’ll “figure it out as they go”.