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Designers should code
Implementation details are design details. Closing the gap changes both the work and the conversation.
The premise
The traditional handoff asks one person to define an experience and another to reconstruct its intent. That gap is expensive.
The decision
Coding does not replace engineering expertise. It lets designers test structure, behaviour and responsive decisions in the medium where the product will exist.
The standard
The useful standard is not 'every designer becomes an engineer.' It is that designers stay close enough to implementation to remain accountable for the result.