I understand your sentiment but I will respectfully and strongly push back on the idea that if you don't code you're just pushing pixels.

You're ignoring the other aspects of design; research, testing, etc. Just because I don't code doesn't mean I don't understand the ramification of what I put down on 'paper'

I have coded in the past but I chose to let that skill drop as it takes practice and time.

By example, here's an overview of my methodologies. In fact, I call out how I can save coding time by iterating ahead of the dev.

http://www.pauric.net/portfolio/methodologies/