

Senior Users Experience and Interface Designer based in Berlin
This method is so versatile that it can be used in many phases of a project. It can be used in the initial product vision workshop, applied on a small feature to provide context, and it can even be used to restructure an endless, meaningless backlog that has lost focus after multiple iterations. In this post, I’ll focus on the first case.
So the concept of designing anything digital and interactive — without knowing how to build that experience — is very foreign to me. It’s like an architect not understanding building materials or basic engineering. Or a chef who plans menus but never cooks, tastes, and refines the completed dishes.
…onvincing argument against it — that UX/UI/interaction designers who can code are better designers. You need to understand the possibilities and constraints of your medium in order to do the best design work that technology can allow for. There’s no better way to gain this understanding than knowing how to build your own designs.