TLDR Design · MISCELLANEOUS

SHOULD UX DESIGNERS LEARN TO CODE?

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Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Whether UX designers should learn to code depends on context: knowing a product's technical materials speeds up workflows and suits lean, bootstrapped teams. Yet coding can invite scope creep, narrow thinking toward technical constraints, and waste time on languages that quickly become obsolete. Teams with more T-shaped members, deep in one field and broadly aware of others, communicate more easily and ship better products faster.