IS CODING “You need to be curious about AND have a basic understanding of the technology that Necessary as A Designer In Tech? is being used to build your design.” — Rochelle King / Spotify “Coding skills can be useful.” “Coding skills are absolutely essential.” “Skills you need: learn to code, deep knowledge of interaction design, and basics of visual design.” + — Maria Giudice / Autodesk “Learn how to write good code. Don't take – just one or two classes, take a lot of classes so that you can think like a “Coding skills are unnecessary.” programmer.” 93.5% — David Dat Nguyen / Gusto “Coding skills aren't important.” of 370 designer respondents “Make sure to learn to code. Design is Junior Mid Senior were overall in favor of coding z becoming more and more complex with each technological cycle.” — Sash Catanzarite / Tradesy Being literate in code is important, but being an expert is not necessarily in your favor. Source // @kpcb #DesignInTech @rochelleking @mgiudice @daviddatnguyen @thesash @johnmaeda Wikipedia: List of Programming Languages eecs.mit.edu/docs/ug/6-3.pdf 19