A co-worker of mine is switching her career from user interface more into front-end development. She asked me: "From your Point-of-View, what should I focus on? Should I learn to code better, so I could work on both design and development? Or should I focus on finetuning the user interactions, animations, and things like those?"
Let's be frank: I'm a developer, I've always been a developer, and thus I have a developer's mindset. I can not talk too much about design, but I figured out, that I can talk about is what I see happening around. And from my Point-of-View, that is that designers are shifting more and more into prototyping in code and designing ready-to-be-used UI components.
I think that is a tremendously good way to go, because then co-operation with different disciplines increase, designers can more ensure that their designs are being used more correctly, and stuff doesn't need to be implemented "twice" in