Can You Be a Web Designer and Developer

 Can You Be a Designer and Developer?

All of these differences seem to imply that designers and developers are two very different jobs or roles.

But they don’t have to be.

You can be a designer and developer at the same time. More people are beginning to label themselves in this way and it is becoming an in-demand skill-set. Design and development are converging for a number of people and even for designers who never considered learning development and vice versa.

I am even one of those people. A bit of a personal story:

I came up as a designer working in print design. I had no idea how websites worked or why, nor did I consider building them.

That all changed a few years ago when I realized that websites could and should be just as beautiful as printed things. And I would be more valuable as a worker and more satisfied in my job if I could learn both skills.

So I started learning to code. I won’t admit to knowing a lot about code. I do know enough to be dangerous.

But I can talk to developers and understand the language. It has made it easier for me to work with developers on projects and hopefully it has made developers appreciate working with a designer who gets where they are coming from.

Now just think if I had learned design and development simultaneously like many of the people just starting their careers.

So … the answer is yes. You can be both a designer and developer. You will probably always be better at one, but your goal should be to have some aptitude in each.