I think it's less that and more that they are literally different tool sets, and designers are often, in the context of this site, hybrid front end coders designers, vs like a person who can only do visual design, and specializes on printing/ branding. While the design done here is important, the term is too loose. I wouldn't feel comfortable seeing this and then asking the person who made the article to say design an ad campaign or execute a visual design from a branding brainstorming session.
The word design simply may not be efficient anymore and leads to a lot of disconnects, because when it comes to engineers vs full time visual vs full time UX designers theres some overlap and each excels at a different point in the process.
I think it's less that and more that they are literally different tool sets, and designers are often, in the context of this site, hybrid front end coders designers, vs like a person who can only do visual design, and specializes on printing/ branding. While the design done here is important, the term is too loose. I wouldn't feel comfortable seeing this and then asking the person who made the article to say design an ad campaign or execute a visual design from a branding brainstorming session.
The word design simply may not be efficient anymore and leads to a lot of disconnects, because when it comes to engineers vs full time visual vs full time UX designers theres some overlap and each excels at a different point in the process.