It’s critical for designers to capitalize on the opportunities and confront the constraints of the medium for which they’re designing, which is why cross-disciplinary collaboration and prototyping in code are still so important. I wrote about why in Atomic Design: https://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com/chapter-4/#development-is-design
LLM tools like ChatGPT and Claude makes the question of "Should designers code?" a funny one. These tools makes creating code trivially easy. In fact, you can create a functioning prototype of an idea in the time it would take you to draw 4 rectangles in Figma. I
In the video, I wanted to show how I can take an idea kicking around in my head out into the world in just a few minutes: https://youtu.be/5PfQNSxn0vs?si=ESvCJynjK6RENYFT&t=313