Elsewhere: Why designers should and shouldn’t code

At Clearleft, our designers do not mark up their own designs. We require that they can all code well, but they never touch a line of production HTML. By the same notion, our front end developers – the ones who do code up the designs – never push a pixel of design, but we do expect them to have a basic understanding of design principles.

Link: http://clagnut.com/blog/2315/

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    Sergio Acosta

    If you are a freelance designer you should be able to code. It has given me an enormous amount of flexibility in my designs. But when your work within an agency, I guess that becomes tricky, because of the clear work division.

    18th Feb 2010
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    Anthony Calzadilla

    Jeez… Reminds me of the mid 90’s. When there was a divide between a pixel-pusher and html coder. I just wouldnt trust a designer that doesnt know how to mark up what they created in photoshop.

    19th Feb 2010
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