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You're right, everyone should have the same job as us! /s

Design is a different skill set than writing code. For some highly visual/spacial people, design is easy and intuitive, and managing lines of text is very unwieldy. Be like, 1% empathetic dude.

Anyway, if designers wrote the code you'd be out of a job. Design should be a continual conversation between someone with the vision and someone with the skills to implement it.

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My comment didn't exactly imply that designers and programmers are the same, simply that web designers should be able to use the tools (and fully understand the constraints) of what constitutes the final output of their job, that is HTML and CSS. Writing CSS and server-side code are obviously two very different things. A designer could be a guy who types CSS in a text editor, among other things.

Might be a tough pill for some, but ultimately I agree it's the way the industry needs to end up. Consider the architect; he doesn't get to blue-sky wild ass concepts for a building. He has to draw within boundaries of local codes and feasibility, often using technical tools such as CAD.

An architect doesn't need to know how to tie rebar, though. That's more what the other commenter is suggesting.

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