Why I Moved from UX to Engineering

Published 20 Jul 2026 | 1 min read | 118 words | EN | Personal

PLACEHOLDER CONTENT — structure only. Real writing is authored in the Phase-0 content sprint. The arc below follows the canonical Career Story; the prose is a scaffold.

I am not moving away from design. I am moving closer to the product.

The foundation

A UX foundation from the Misk program, and where design first clicked.

The pull toward building

Where design kept running into the limits of stopping at handoff.

The move

Taking ownership — internal tools, AI adoption, product ownership — and then the move into software engineering under CIT.

What I carry forward

Design that does not end at handoff is the through-line, not "a designer who can also code."