Re:Designers read this and developers will love you
by kamjam on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @10:04AM
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You'd think that, but I've met some very good designers that can work that full stack. The world is changing and people need to upskill or get left behind.
HTML/CSS is not that difficult. Even jQuery is pretty simple. Good jQuery is hard. Good Javascript harder still.
Re:Designers read this and developers will love you
by rralian on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @11:35AM
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I also think developers are getting much savvier about design, and the tools helping developers with design are getting better and better. So the person who winds up doing all the design/html/css/js may not be the person who started out as the designer. So designers, by all means, harvest that fear and push yourself to learn some new skills.
Is just in regards to bare HTML/CSS or JavaScript interaction as well? I’d think most companies would be hard-pressed to find a designer that could write in the full HTML/CSS/JS stack needed for webapps these days and be equally competent in interaction or visual design – as ironic as that sounds – in which case FEDs are still very important in the process.