Today, being a designer is about much more than drawing beautiful interfaces in Photoshop or Fireworks. To properly design a website or application, a UI designer must understand the technology with which their products will be built; therefore, they must have a minimum set of front-end development skills. The World Wide Web is not static. Quite the opposite: It’s responsive 1 , fluid 2 , evolving 3 and ever changing 4 . Web designers need to be familiar with HTML and CSS 5 code and front-end technologies when they conceive a website or application’s interface. It might be of no real interest to some of you, but it could add some precious assets to your range of skills. Or, as Jeffrey Zeldman put it 6 five years ago: Real web designers write code.
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