I realise this poll was somewhat controversial, I should've turned on the option to select both (cool that Mastodon does that!). Also not a surprise that most people selected ‘Developer' down to where I posted the poll and my audience.
@DavidDarnes@beep arrghh I've lost who posted it now, as lots of us have posted similar things - maybe @heydon - who asserted that those who can code, have ended up pushed into the developer side, and had the design part wrested out of their hands. Which sucks.
For my part, I think design systems have generally entrenched a lot of the old, bad divisions between design and engineering. Wrote this a few years back, but I think it generally holds up: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-design-systems-between-us/
I may already be 40, but I look up to all of you and the other brilliant and caring people in the same accessibility-conscious design-development space, exactly where I'm choosing to put down roots and grow into.
I browse the internet, live on the internet, for (an unhealthy number of) hours a day and it's clearly these very people who could turn around the jank and the inaccessibility of it all. And yet somehow we're not seen not as unicorns, but unnecessary.
@sarajw@beep@heydon appreciate everyones contributions to this discussion, thank you! I wasn't intending to create division with my poll, just interested to know where my audience leans towards. I very much know the benefits of design and development working as one on a design system, something we did naturally when working on Nord Design System. We all had skills in design and development, we all just sat in different parts of the spectrum
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