Do you need to code to be a designer
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If you design for computer you have to be a capable programmer, not just code HTML/CSS.
Current computer interface design was largely finished decades ago in the 1968 NLS Mother of All Demos and then XEROX PARC. (Where Steve Jobs got the ideas for Macintosh)
Almost everyone involved in in those projects programmed. Then they hired a tiny minority of artists to decorate.
Not much has been "designed" since then. Maybe rearranged for bigger screens. The web industry has been making UX catastrophes for a decade, until the UX discipline separated in like 2010. And that discipline settled on 5 templates for everything. Also small screens helped simplify UIs significantly, just as the original Windows and Mac were simpler on tiny resolution screens.
A non-programmer can only rearrange the deck chairs so to speak. UX designers can simplify a UI until grandmas can use it by trading off capability. But this approach is necessitated by the mess programmers created by bundling functionality into monolithic apps.
The next redesign is going to be based around natural language systems like Siri with extra buttons for power users. And as usual 90% of the design will be done by programmers and a few decorators. Then as usual, the industry will find some way to squander the potential of these systems.
Something like the Wolfram Language Demo mixed with http://whoo.ps/2015/02/23/future… although Wolfram is not all that in practice
Some more thoughts on actual computer "design" http://pchiusano.github.io/2013-…
- Of course the average web designer will just be redecorating some templates so this doesn't apply. Do not learn code, go outside.Pupsipu
- < this is you make crappy shitty products. a disrespect for simplicity, disregard for user experience, decorating rather than designing great ideas.********
- BTW- Steve Jobs considered himself an artist and barely touched the computer. His work is still the basis for most if not all mobile/ computer based idea.********
- ^ really?fadein11