This is humorous to me considering the engineering experience I've had with their site. In a word, lax.

You can attack it from either angle, surely—a tool requires both design and engineering—but you have to strike a balance.

If I had one recommendation, it would be for every engineer to be a designer and every designer an engineer. Only then will you begin to understand the process and problems that the other side faces at every turn.

Anecdotally, being both an engineer and designer has helped me immensely in aspects of each practice in untold ways.

So, yes, the article is right, but they shouldn't be making people think more like designers—that, too, is closed minded and limiting. Aim for a balance between engineering and design that works together. Looking at the problem from any one side is incomplete.