How Technical Do Designers Need to Be?
As front-end and back-end system designs become more and more intertwined, the need for the Web designer to become technically savvy is apparent. How savvy is the question for many designers. Is it enough to just know HTML? Should the designer need to know programming basics in order to successfully design for the Web? Therein lies the debate. How technical do designers have to be today? Some would argue that designers should design and developers should code. This is historically how the two camps worked together: one camp imposing limitations on the other as they both try to push the boundaries as much as possible. But which camp has the greater influence over the other? Which camp should have the greater ...
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