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Can you have the skill to come up with a good design if you have no clue how to implement it or how someone else would?
by brailsafe 6y ago
Can you have the skill to come up with a good design if you have no clue how to implement it or how someone else would?
- didibus 6y agoI think yes, it probably helps to know the limits or difficulties of implementing something when designing it as well, so you can design something nice and easy to implement, but otherwise why wouldn't someone be able to design a mock?
- jwilber 6y agoYes. I’m in the school that believes UX people should know how to code, but know plenty at big tech companies who can’t.
- saidajigumi 6y agoCan you have the skill to come up with a good design if you have no clue how to implement it or how someone else would? This is a straw-man. Real-world designers absolutely do have a sense of implementation constraints for their target platforms, yet are usually not deep implementation domain experts. Likewise, experienced UI devs often have a sense of design, but are often not going to draft and refine a whole-cloth new design. I’ve also met a rare unicorn or two: those magic individuals who are fully capable developers and designers. Put another way: UI design and UI development are adjacent specialties. Visually, they’d be partially overlapping regions in a Venn diagram. A UI designer or a UI dev who somehow knows nothing of their peer discipline will be hamstrung. I’ve met devs who fit this bill, not by their own design, and they’re usually radically unhappy with their work until they manage to pivot to non-UI development.