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For an acessible stack to build prototypes, coming from design, you'll probably benefit from a templating framework backed by a dynamic language, possibly with some data-access (CRUD) scaffolding built-in. Two popular ones are Ruby on Rails (Ruby language) and Django (Python language).

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Nice to read. I've heard about Ruby on Rails for some time now, but when I suggested it to my friends, they were quite sceptic and recommended javascript coupled with some well used libraries (angular.js + node.js). What's your opinion?

Node.js fits the general idea of a stack that has a templating framework and a dynamic language (JavaScript in this case). There are also data-access libraries. As a designer, you probably already know some JavaScript, so this could be an acessible option. But Node's programming model requires particular attention to deal with its asynchronous nature. Anyway, I would recommend you to pick one, do the tutorial and try to build a simple prototype. You'll learn a lot.

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