SHOULD DESIGNERS "CODE"?

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Designers should code because understanding your medium leads to better design work, just like sculptors need to know marble properties. From 2014-2024, the increasing complexity of front-end frameworks made coding impractical for most designers, creating a gap between design and development. AI coding agents now make development fast enough that designers can work directly with production code again, flipping from "design to build" to "prototype to productize."