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I disagree strongly with the author, Yea I designer can learn how to do dev stuff, is he going to do it efficiently in a work environment? I think not. The aut

I disagree strongly with the author, Yea I designer can learn how to do dev stuff, is he going to do it efficiently in a work environment? I think not. The author talk about front-end development like it's coming increasingly easy, it's the contrary, it's more complex than it ever was. Front-end development is not anymore about doing some css, html & creating a poorly written jquery plugins. It's a whole stack now, you got preprocessors to make css more powerful, a whole lot of tools to automate process, and js mvc to the booth & much more advanced javascript code to handle. Is there exceptions? of course there are, some engineer are incredibly gifted designers and the other way is true, but in general? it's going to stay separate jobs.

stuffihavemade 14y ago
Another important point is that the VAST majority of software is not pretty consumer iphone and Rails apps. Some of the products I've worked on have been ugly as sin, but no company truly cares about that vs. the value gained. Imagine two scenarios: 1) A beautiful designed piece of software that increases company revenues by 10%. 2) An ugly (but same ease of use) piece of software that increases company revenues by 10.1%. Which would you rather use at your company? Do I think design is important? Sure. But to say that "designers are eating engineers" because it's easier now to make a twiiter/instagram mash up is ignoring the multi million line code bases that account for most of the "valuable" software.