How to become a “Designer Who Codes”

The stages I went through on my path to learning front-end development

Meagan Fisher
Design Systems
Published in
14 min readFeb 20, 2019

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Quick note: “coding” in this article is my shorthand phrase for “learning enough HTML and CSS to be able to create the basic front-end for the websites you design.” Many developers will probably see this as dipping the smallest of pinky toes into “coding,” and that’s fine with me. 💁‍♀️

Being a Designer Who Codes™ is a pretty awesome superpower. Not only can you design pictures of gorgeous websites, but you can make them…

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