I’m a full-stack frontend leaning engineer and I’m thinking of learning to learn design and work in Figma or something similar. Can anyone out there shed some light on some trade offs I might not be seeing, things to consider, or experience working in this kind of role?

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Completely anecdotal: I studied art in school and was a web hobbyist, and I entered the industry as a "designer/developer." I found that a lot more (frequently unqualified) people want to tell you how to design than how to code (while there's still plenty of the latter) and I ended up disengaging from the design side of things because design-by-committee always left me feeling drained and it was easier not to care about that. But also, I enjoy coding and I'm definitely better at it by now, so maybe it's a me thing.

I will also say the "designer/developer" thing isn't really a great concept. It's two very different sets of skills, even if they're related. I've rarely encountered someone who was very good at both—including, I eventually conceded, me. I tried to hire them for a few years and rarely found a good fit.

But having some understanding of both sides of the aisle is very valuable, and marketable. If you're interested in learning design, it's easy enough to stick a toe in the waters. Freelance, side projects, online courses. Give it a shot and see if you like it.

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Like working as uxr/uxd?

I’ve worked with a designer who could code react pretty well, but I’m imagining a role where having better technical lens could better inform the designs.

This is exactly my journey. I use 3 major selling points.

1) Designs are accessibility informed in every aspect from contrast to the way content is structured. Implementation of my last design scored a 94 on Lighthouse (WCAG) before even making the suggested tweaks. We got it to a 99.

2) I understand the Pareto (80:20) rule when it comes to design impact vs ease of implementation. If I make an unorthodox choice, I have a decent idea of how long it’s going to take to implement responsively and accessibly.

3) Along the same vein I’m familiar with major libraries (i.e. Material). I pick the one that’s closest to my vision and every deviation from OOB is deliberate. frustrating to spend time overriding defaults just because of a designer’s arbitrary choices.

So in the end, you’re saving your employer or client a lot of money because dev time is expensive.

I love Figma because of its auto layout, and you can even render flexbox-based react w the Anima plugin

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