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Forget Coding: Writing Is Design’s “Unicorn Skill”
- herbst 10y agoBasics sure. Bit you can hire good writers for 20$. Good luck finding a remotely good programmer for that. Also the reason I as coder want my designers to be able to code is that they make the right decisions. Good UX happens on both sides
- otterley 10y agoCan you show us some examples of excellent technical writing that was produced by someone for $20?
- gumby 10y agoI've found the best programmers are also really good writers of English. I unscientifically credit this to my belief that both skills require 1> clarity of purpose (why am I writing this function/paragraph? What's the overall purpose of this effort?) 2> Lazy enough that they'd rather get it close to right the first time, and then fix bugs, rather than thrash around and see what emerges, 3> a taste for parsimony, but not excessively so, and no need to show off in what they type.