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Introduction to coding for UX and UI designers: data structures and objects
There’s one general topic that designers may find helpful in understanding what developers do to translate the designs into something that other people can use. If you want to learn something useful for your job — learn about data structures and objects first.
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…