A practical design-engineering curriculum built around AI-assisted product creation and shipping. The supplied index starts with how applications work and how to evaluate AI tools, then moves into tooling and prompting, a complete mobile-app build, a macOS app build, version control, distribution and design-engineer career positioning.
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What You Get in Sunal Sood – Design Engineer Pro
Design Engineer Pro is structured around the transition from interface design into working software. The indexed lessons connect frontend/backend/API fundamentals with AI model selection and workflow concepts, then apply them through Figma-to-app builds, Supabase authentication and storage, GitHub version control, APK distribution, SwiftUI/macOS work and DMG shipping.
- The foundation section explains frontend, backend and APIs, then separates AI prototyping tools from AI building tools.
- AI workflow lessons include model choice, token/context economics, latency/throughput, prompting, real-team workflows, MCP and CLI concepts.
- The mobile-app section moves from environment setup and a first Figma prompt into iteration, file/PDF handling, Supabase, APK distribution and GitHub.
- The macOS section covers SwiftUI, UI iteration, Lottie/icons, personalized reminders and DMG distribution.
- The final section addresses contribution inside an organization’s codebase and the hiring trajectory for a design engineer.
Course Learning Path at a Glance
| Stage | Primary focus | Indexed evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation | Understand the product stack and AI trade-offs | Frontend/backend/APIs, prototyping vs building, model choice, cost and speed |
| Tooling | Build an AI-assisted design-engineering workflow | Taste prompting, team workflows, AI tools tour, Magic Pattern/Path, MCP and CLI |
| Mobile build | Turn a design into a distributable app | Figma to app, build loop, Supabase, APK shipping, GitHub |
| macOS build | Create, polish and package a desktop app | SwiftUI, Notch app, reminders, Lottie/icons, DMG distribution |
| Career | Operate in production and position for design-engineer roles | Codebase contribution and hiring trajectory |
Here’s What You Get:
You’ve handed off specs that came back unrecognizable. You’ve watched engineers deprioritize your best work. You’ve sat in sprint planning knowing your designs won’t ship this quarter. Maybe not next quarter either.
That’s not a design problem. It’s a dependency problem.
Designers who build don’t wait for permission. They prototype in code, ship MVPs over a weekend, and walk into standups with working demos instead of Figma links. They get hired first, promoted faster, and command 3x the rate.
AI changed the math. Claude and Cursor write the code. You direct it. Three hours from mockup to deployed URL — no CS degree, no bootcamp, no begging for eng resources.
This course teaches the exact workflow.
Full Course Structure
The accordion below preserves the supplied course index by its main sections so buyers can see exactly what is included before purchasing.
Section 1 — The Shift: Designer to Design Engineer
- The Shift Is Already Here — MP4
- The Shift Is Already Here — PDF
- How This Course Is Structured — MP4
- How This Course Is Structured — PDF
- Frontend, Backend, APIs: How Apps Actually Work — MP4
- Frontend, Backend, APIs: How Apps Actually Work — PDF
- Two Types of AI Tools: Prototyping vs Building — MP4
- Two Types of AI Tools: Prototyping vs Building — PDF
- Web-Based Builders: Why They Are Not Enough — MP4
- Web-Based Builders: Why They Are Not Enough — PDF
- Picking the Right AI Model — MP4
- Picking the Right AI Model — PDF
- AI Cost: Tokens, Cache, Context Windows — MP4
- AI Cost: Tokens, Cache, Context Windows — PDF
- AI Speed: Latency vs Throughput — MP4
- AI Speed: Latency vs Throughput — PDF
Section 2 — Core Stack: Tools & Environment
- Taste Prompting: Why Your Workflow Is the Edge — MP4
- Taste Prompting: Why Your Workflow Is the Edge — PDF
- How Real Teams Use AI Workflows — MP4
- How Real Teams Use AI Workflows — PDF
- The AI Tools Tour: Bird-Eye View — MP4
- The AI Tools Tour: Bird-Eye View — PDF
- Magic Pattern / Magic Path Tools Deep Dive — MP4
- Magic Pattern / Magic Path Tools Deep Dive — PDF
- MCP, CLI, skills.md: The Three Concepts You Need — MP4
- MCP, CLI, skills.md: The Three Concepts You Need — PDF
Section 3 — Build & Ship: Your First Mobile App
- Setting Up Your Build Environment — MP4
- Setting Up Your Build Environment — PDF
- First Prompt: Figma to a Running App — MP4
- First Prompt: Figma to a Running App — PDF
- Iterating Bunkd: File Picker, PDF Preview & the Real Build Loop — MP4
- Iterating Bunkd: File Picker, PDF Preview & the Real Build Loop — PDF
- Auth + Cloud Storage With Supabase — MP4
- Auth + Cloud Storage With Supabase — PDF
- Shipping an APK: Real Device Distribution — MP4
- Shipping an APK: Real Device Distribution — PDF
- Version Control: Pushing to GitHub — MP4
- Version Control: Pushing to GitHub — PDF
Section 4 — Build & Ship: Your First macOS App
- Tools Setup: Getting Ready for the macOS Build — PDF
- First Build: Kiro + SwiftUI, a Notch App — MP4
- First Build: Kiro + SwiftUI, a Notch App — PDF
- Iterating the UI: Notch, Reminders, Custom Sounds — MP4
- Iterating the UI: Notch, Reminders, Custom Sounds — PDF
- Polishing the Build: Lottie, Icons, Personalized Reminders — MP4
- Polishing the Build: Lottie, Icons, Personalized Reminders — PDF
- App Icon + Distribution: Shipping a DMG — MP4
- App Icon + Distribution: Shipping a DMG — PDF
Section 5 — Stay Relevant: Hiring & Shipping in Production
- How to Be a Top Contributor as a Design Engineer in Your Organisation’s Codebase — MP4
- How to Be a Top Contributor as a Design Engineer in Your Organisation’s Codebase — PDF
- What You Need to Get Hired as a Design Engineer: The Career Trajectory Ahead — MP4
- What You Need to Get Hired as a Design Engineer: The Career Trajectory Ahead — PDF
Who This Course Is Built For
The curriculum is aimed at designers moving toward implementation and product shipping, especially those who want to understand AI-assisted development workflows and see complete build/distribution sequences rather than stopping at static prototypes.
- Connects design, AI tooling and real application shipping in one curriculum.
- Includes both mobile and macOS build tracks.
- Covers production-adjacent tools including Supabase and GitHub.
- Ends with codebase contribution and hiring-focused lessons.
- The indexed curriculum goes beyond visual design into development concepts and tooling.
- The macOS track explicitly uses SwiftUI and the mobile track includes build/distribution workflows, so it is not a no-code-only course.
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Sunal Sood – Design Engineer Pro has a concrete progression from design-engineering fundamentals to tools, mobile shipping, macOS shipping and career relevance. The strongest evidence in the supplied index is that learners do not stop at prototypes: the curriculum explicitly reaches authentication, cloud storage, version control, APK distribution and DMG distribution.
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