"Designers should know how CSS, HTML, and Javascript construct interfaces within a Web browser. You need to be intimate with your medium to know what it can and cannot do."
"Before 2014, a designer could build a lot with HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Then React and Angular gained traction, and the gap between 'I can code a website' and 'I can code in my team's dev environment' widened fast."
"AI coding agents are now collapsing the gap between designing and building. The loop has flipped from 'design to build' to 'prototype to productize'."
Designers are encouraged to learn coding to understand the construction of web interfaces. Historically, the complexity of front-end development made coding impractical for many designers. The rise of frameworks like React and Angular increased the gap between basic coding and team development environments. However, AI coding agents are now making development faster, allowing designers to transition from prototyping to productizing, thus changing the traditional design-build process.
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