A well-built platform engineering process can create a single source of truth, providing reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery to your entire organization.
Platform Engineering
For effective platform engineering, center the user experience.
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Platform engineering combines DevOps, product development, and business functions for a more holistic approach to design and development.
It's a method of investigating how software gets built to be more scalable for everyone contributing to the ultimate value of a system. Bringing all of these processes under one umbrella can seem daunting—but it is absolutely necessary for any company looking to innovate rapidly for competitive advantage.
What’s often missed when structuring this process is design—and it goes far beyond considerations of styling. When building tools to enable self-service, you must treat your internal users with the same kind of empathy that you employ for customers. It's not just about a modern interface; it’s also about how they're interacting with it.
Neglecting to put this level of care and consideration into orchestrating an entire cohesive system—Design Language System, UX, application components, robotic process automation (RPA), and DevOps—will result in sub-par tools that aren’t solving your internal challenges and wasted investment. Take the time to infuse a great design system into your platform engineering process.
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Strategic design fuels the Platform Engineering transformation. You need a team able to dig into your internal operating systems—both digital and procedural—understand them innately, and design for them. You need a team with an appreciation for the dimensionality of platform thinking and engineering, who values the role of RPA in automating tasks and processes. You need a team who understands that platform engineering is not a UX styling problem, but a culture change in product innovation and governance.
Design is the missing piece in Platform Engineering
Technology Director Robert Tuttle talks about the role of user experience and design in effective platform engineering.
Platform Engineering establishes a centralized repository that infuses speed and consistency across the development lifecycle. However, Design is often missing from the conversation.
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