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Introduction to coding for UX and UI designers: data structures and objects

Paul Pela
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9 min readMar 19, 2019

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There’s an ongoing discussion whether designers of digital products should or shouldn’t learn to code. I think we should reframe this question to ask whether designers should understand the general aspects of technology that powers the products. I wrote about this in February and the article got some attention from the both communities, including one good question from Rachel Lum, so I decided to follow up:

What you’ll learn here and what you won’t learn

What I’m going to do is to explain in most general terms what are data structures and how your…

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UX Planet is a one-stop resource for everything related to user experience.

Written by Paul Pela

Future dad, 9to5: tech support agent. I write about the User Experience of learning programming.

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I am grateful for such an important sharing. together with another article I got from academic online essays, one can be fully driven to be a designer and a developer.

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Every designer that works with developers should make it as easy as possible for the development team to translate their designs. Clear communication with developers throughout the design process is important as well as having a working knowledge of…

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Thanks for the article! Sparked my interest!
Can anyone of you recommend a good book on a little „deeper dive into the basics“ of programming?