About two and a half years ago, I decided I fancied a change from working for myself designing & building WordPress sites in my bedroom, so I applied to work at GoCardless. From the website I wasn’t totally sure what the company did, but from what I could find on social media it looked like a group of people who were having a lot of fun working together building something they were proud of.
After a quick Skype chat, a take-home challenge to test my design & front end chops and finally a trip to the GoCardless office, I left…
It’s 2010. The very first iPad has just been released. Justin Bieber has a fringe. ‘Web designer’ is a job title. ‘React’ is a verb. People are asking the question: should designers code?
Earlier in the year, Elliot Jay Stocks causes a storm by tweeting that he’s “still coming across ‘web designers’ who can’t code”. Inside the blogosphere you’re basically stupid & irrelevant (you idiot) if you don’t have a published think piece on the topic. By 2011, Harry Roberts refers to it as “that question”.
It’s not 2010 anymore. The very first Apple Watch has just been released. Justin…
