This buzzword has been doing the rounds quite a lot recently: user-centred design. It’s seems like a term created solely to allow some quote-padding, because if you’re not building for your user, who are you building for at all?
Front end development has come a long way from the days of Photoshop comps that were sliced into little bits and sprite-sheeted for rounded corners, boxes that broke grids and drop-shadows.
There has been a debate raging for quite a while now: Should designers know how to code? So far, I’ve stood on the side of: designers should know about the tech they are using to know its potential and use it well.