Web Designers should be familiar with photoshop and illustrator. Web designer Not needs to learn a programming language.

Question

Should web designers be familiar with programming language? Means should they be expert in a programming language which programmings languages are used to be a web developer?

Answer 1

A Web developer must have some knowledge in these languages

Answer 2

Html, css, java script, bootstrap

Answer 3

But, I am asking for web designers

Answer 4

There are two popular definitions of a web designer.

First is a UI/UX designer. A UI/UX designer works with tools like Photoshop/GIMP and Figma. A designs how a website user interface should be.

Second is a Frontend designer. He creates frontend of websites with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. He might also learn some CSS frameworks like Pure, Foundation and Bootstrap. Also he should be familiar with SVG graphics using Illustrator or Inkscape.

Third is a frontend developer. In addition to the skills of the frontend designer, a frontend developer should be able to create reusable modules for the frontend. This can be done by using a framework like React or Angular. Also a frontend developer might have experience in using some libraries like jQuery, Lodash and Dojo. He must have a little bit knowledge about how the backend is designed so as to be able to work with backend developers.

Answer 5

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