We Don’t Need More Designers Who Can Code

Jesse Weaver
4 min readDec 17, 2014

A lot has been made of the need for designers who can code. A quick google search for “should designers learn to code” yields 25 million results.

To be straight from the outset, I don’t completely disagree with the premise. However, I think the statement, “we need designers who can code” misrepresents the underlying issue.

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Jesse Weaver

CoFounder and CEO of Design Like You Mean It | Humane Tech Evangelist | Designer