What do you think a Design Engineer does?
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This always struck me as an odd debate. Should? What about like, designers can code, if they want, and they find it helpful or interesting.
It doesn't mean you _have_ to, but that's a personal choice. I'd almost always hire a designer with weaker visual skills but an understanding of how products are built than a rockstar visual designer without that understanding.
Leaning toward that as well. Visual design and product design are so different in many ways. Knowing how things are built from dev perspective is such an advantage for a designer in interfaces and websites