I don’t think I’m an engineer or “developer” by any stretch. I’m very fortunate to work with really smart, talented, brilliant ones. I do think that having a foundation in front-end coding can only help designers working on the web today. At many companies—Basecamp included—it’s actually a requirement that you can code HTML and CSS if you’re a product designer.
To further this discussion, while I think it’s good for designers to know code, there are plenty of designers doing great work that don’t know a lick of code, and frankly aren’t interested in learning it. That’s okay, too!
Whenever I describe myself, I always say designer. HTML and CSS are just some of my design tools.
CJ, great question.
I don’t think I’m an engineer or “developer” by any stretch. I’m very fortunate to work with really smart, talented, brilliant ones. I do think that having a foundation in front-end coding can only help designers working on the web today. At many companies—Basecamp included—it’s actually a requirement that you can code HTML and CSS if you’re a product designer.
To further this discussion, while I think it’s good for designers to know code, there are plenty of designers doing great work that don’t know a lick of code, and frankly aren’t interested in learning it. That’s okay, too!
Whenever I describe myself, I always say designer. HTML and CSS are just some of my design tools.