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Posted by Syed Ahsan Ali Rizvi
Syed Ahsan Ali Rizvi
3,245 Points

Difference between web devloper and designer?

I am new to web industry and aim to work as a freelance. Do web design and devlopment have a difference?if you are a web devloper does that mean you dont write css and its for the designer.

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

This line is being blurred more and more, for good reason IMO, but a definition would be:

Web designer: Creates the UI, colors, layout, text, white space, etc, for the website, while not necessarily coding anything - they might not even know how to code, but again, IMO, even a designer needs to understand how their design will translate into an actual coded website to keep UX in mind.

Web developer: Translate the designs of the designer, into actual code.

UX engineer: You didn't ask, but a third position would be a UX engineer or designer, who would ensure a successful marriage between the design and the code, to ensure that the developer wrote relatively bug free, disability accessible code that performed quickly, while the UI from the designer was intuitive, appropriate, and also disability accessible in the most comprehensive manor possible.

Syed Ahsan Ali Rizvi
Syed Ahsan Ali Rizvi
3,245 Points

Thanks for the answer it helped to clear the concept.