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Look more people need to be coding and understand as much as possible about frameworks, databases, javascript, RoR, NodeJS, responsive design, dev time frames,
by timjaeger 14y ago
Look more people need to be coding and understand as much as possible about frameworks, databases, javascript, RoR, NodeJS, responsive design, dev time frames, Agile, etc.
I am a UX Designer who can code (Rails, Javascript, CSS etc.) and it embarasses me when I talk to others that are just 'wireframe monkeys'. If you don't know HTML how can anyone trust your designs?
I can only take so much - UX people need to step up and LEARN this stuff. If you don't you will just pave your own path to irrelevancy.
If it were up to me there would be some other way to describe UX ppl that know tech and those that can merely hit something with the pretty stick and leave devs scratching their heads...
- psweber 14y agoI mostly agree with you. Many UX professionals I have worked with are almost proud about the fact that they don't have hands on experience with software development or visual design. They are the worst of both worlds. That being said, I don't think that a UX designer should spend the average day working on the nuts and bolts of development. A structural architect builds models and then collaborates with someone with more expertise who is in charge of the real building process. The comparison isn't perfect, but I think that as our industry matures, it will more closely resemble that. UX architects need a better modeling tool.