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I don't buy it. All the good designers I know make excellent mock-ups and have a good understanding of css, pixel widths, etc. It is also my experience that a
by humbleMouse 10y ago
I don't buy it. All the good designers I know make excellent mock-ups and have a good understanding of css, pixel widths, etc. It is also my experience that a good designer will talk to the coder during the course of making their design to make sure what they are doing can actually be coded and makes sense.
Coding and designing are 2 very different disciplines. I do forsee more tools like spectra to come out that help merge design and coding - but this doesn't change that fact that designers have to think about sooooo many other things besides the actual implementation of their design.
- rimliu 10y agoCoding and playing guitar is also two different disciplines, but for some reason a lot of programmers do enjoy playing music. I do not believe that different disciplines are at odds in the sense that single person cannot learn to do them well. I am more inclined to believe that learning different stuff actually helps to be better at each one.
- humbleMouse 10y agoI'm not saying you can't be good at two things. I'm just saying that if you spend 8 hours a day specializing in one thing, you will be really good at that thing. Designers think about all sorts of things that aren't on programmers brains. I haven't studied the history of design and UX experience and theory. I also don't want to sit around in adobe designing mock-ups all day, that's why I am a programmer.