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A comment on John Maeda: If You Want to Survive in Design, You Better Learn to Code.

Re:John Maeda: If You Want to Survive in Design, You Better ... by drizzzler on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @12:04PM (#13877055)
It does not help you get a job, ie survive. In my experience companies are not looking for unicorns, they want you to be very good at a specific thing (startups under 5 people are maybe the exception).
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Re:John Maeda: If You Want to Survive in Design, You Better ... by anotheryou on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @12:45PM (#13877461)
My thoughts exactly. I'm good at many things, but no expert in any.

I'm currently in a start-up though and it is very useful: I forbid the programmers to write any CSS or Android Layouting and than really quickly do the design. Probably a lot quicker than going back and forth for every tiny change or having rigid pixel perfect designs (I only occasionaly make balsamiq mockups).

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