Why designers should learn to code — or at least consider it

It’s an old question: should designers code? And it gets a lot of people riled up whenever brought up in a conversation. So, why are we still talking about it? Well, there’s a few reasons as to why, but it’s mostly because of the reality that, now more than ever, companies are searching for designers that understand HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Hold on.. so does that mean I need to learn coding now too, on top of my design qualifications? Not exactly, but there’s defin