From a web development perspective... I like designers who can code because they're going to know how difficult it is to make the thing they design. They'll als

From a web development perspective... I like designers who can code because they're going to know how difficult it is to make the thing they design. They'll also likely know what the tradeoffs that can be made for support in different browsers are. Designers who can't code can still understand all these things, of course. But in my experience they're less likely to.