

Product Designers vs Design Engineers – Hatch Berlin edition
Who owns the process?
There's an argument that doesn't fit into a conference talk: product designers and design engineers both think they should own what actually ships.
Neither side has won.
So we're walking off the conference floor for a quick lunch to settle it. Or not settle it but at least argue about it with a slice in hand.
The deal:
13:30, five-minute walk down Gerichtstraße to Martha-Ndumbe-Platz (the square with the big round bench under the trees)
Pizza and drinks are on us. Grab some swag on your way out.
No talks, no slides, no demo, no agenda. If anyone starts presenting, we'll leave with you.
Eat, disagree and walk back in time for the afternoon track.
Come if you're:
Design engineer who feels like a rounding error at most design conferences.
Product designer tired of throwing specs over the wall.
Anyone whose "just build it in code" conversation has ended badly.
Bring whoever you're sitting next to. You don't need to know us.
Location
Martha-Ndumbe-Platz
Nettelbeckplatz, 13347 Berlin, Germany
Room for ~30. RSVP so we order enough pizza.
It's Berlin in September, so if it rains we'll move somewhere with a roof and post it here on the morning.
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Hosted by SG and the ModeInspect team.
We build a design tool that runs inside your product's code, which is why we have unreasonably strong opinions on this.
We're buying lunch, not pitching.