Future of Web Design
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I do coding in AS3 and design and I don't think it's practical for most designers to learn serious programming. I spent months on it. Coding big apps in Java/PHP/AS3 has nothing to do with putting together little HTML sites, even if they have little javascripts in places.
It's all good to know, but I think you needs to be a certain critical mass of knowledge for it to be useful.
If you hired a designer who coded as well, and had developers on staff, would you be able to take advantage of that designer's broad set of skills or just keep them in mind and feel better about it?
It seems like the main advantage the employer gets is being able to hire someone who can be a developer is pay him a designer's salary.
I think the real advantage of knowing design and programming is the kind of ideas you could come up with for projects.