Well, all I can say is that when you are hiring - it's very tough to find skilled developers at all, let alone with design skills. Designers are easier to find

Well, all I can say is that when you are hiring - it's very tough to find skilled developers at all, let alone with design skills. Designers are easier to find, but not a lot of them code. That's just my own personal experience plus a general feel for the industry from reading and talking to a few other business owners. It's funny how it seems like everybody is a programmer or UX designer - until you actually have to hire staff - then suddenly there seems to be none around! Of course it might be different if I was hiring at Facebook or Google rather than a small tech startup. But anyway, don't confuse my saying I'm an adequate designer to mean that I have no taste or that I produce fugly apps. Nor am I rotting away in an ancient IT department with no clue about the current state of software development. I work on a team & we all have our own specialties. I need to have rudimentary design skills, but it would usually be a waste of resources for me to get overly involved in the actual graphic design.