Being a UX Designer with frontend dev skills is indeed very useful for certain aspects of design work:
* you can try out things in your target frontend technology (check out feasibility and possibilities, play with it, stretch it to its limits), and if you have the appropriate authority you can choose the best one for what you are trying to achieve. * you can build prototypes that really have high fidelity because they are done in the same environment like the final product will be. * you are able to keep control of your design even during implementation or agile-iterative building phases, because you not only understand what the devs are doing, but you are able to contribute the essential parts yourself (like templates). There are less communication issues. Just as graphic designers who know how to code can do amazing things with code (keyword generative design), UX Designers who are very much closer to the technical side of things should imho strive to at least be able to do rudimentary things. In small teams, the overall frontend guy who does everything related to UX is not so uncommon, and this is not going to change. The same is true for developers - you do not always have specialists for frontend, backend, database, security etc. milan -- ||| | | |||| || |||||||| | || | || milan guenther * interaction design p +49 173 2856689 * www.guenther.cx ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
