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It's an open question just how many of the skills of both developers and designer are "inherent".

I've certainly noticed that the designers at my company operate on a different design plane than I do. However, that could be because they're designers - this is what they devote their professional life to, just like how I devote mine to programming. Immersing yourself in anything changes your perspective.

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I would venture that the "inherent" skills (i.e. skills that can't simply be learned) are those that separate the truly good anything, whether it is a designer, developer, or basketball player. Maybe the term there is "talent"?

Agreed- devoting yourself to anything will adjust your perspective. But I'm not sure that alone can explain super dork programmers or really off-the-wall designers? There's something more fundamental there.

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