Future of Web Design
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- ukit0
I am one of those designers who feels comfortable learning code as well as design in the traditional sense...and I say it will never hurt to learn that stuff.
I've worked in jobs where my job title was "user experience designer" and I never ever touched a line of code. My whole role was to work on the usability and visual design and then throw the design over the wall to the dev team. That kind of job title, "UX designer" and also "visual designer" is more and more common at big companies and also at agencies, where in general people are becoming more specialized, not less.
On the other side of things, I've worked in startups or on freelance projects where I was working along or with a handful of people and had to do everything from HTML and Actionscript, to visual design and branding.
So I would say both types of jobs are available...but it definitely helps to have a working knowledge of what technologies are out there and best practices even if you never touch a line of code yourself.
I also think it's a good thing for designers to know these technologies if you are working in the interactive domain because IMHO projects turn out better when the designer handles things from beginning to end:)