This is actually valid criticism. We are getting tired of people finding new ways to come to the same conclusions. We are even more tired, of people stretching out very little meaningful content to lengthy articles, not to share, not to move people or to make a difference, but to promote themselves shamelessly.

Good content is appropriate, useful, user-centered, clear, consistent, concise, supported. This is basic content strategy. I am not trying to hate on you, neither is Daniel De Laney. But this is clearly content that was created with the intention to build up your following, and then in the long run to monetize that somehow.

Because we all know, once we have a following we can all drop our Saas product that will revolutionize something just because it looks different.

But seriously, a martial artists approach? This could have been anything: A cooks approach, a mixologists approach, a fashion designers approach, you name it. I guess it is time for me, to publish my "how I learned to write semantic markup and use BEM while binge watching speedruns of banjo kazooie". People react to it, because they don't buy it anymore. It just feels ingenuine.

Do we seriously need to remind people, that it is always better to know more about the stuff you are doing?

Hi Sagi, I see you wrote the article. I wasn’t commenting on your point of view. I was commenting on the article itself. Specifically:

• the rehashing of the ancient “should designers code” debate,
• the What You Can Learn About Design From Anakin Skywalker title,
• the empty arguments, and
• the lack of proofreading.

To expand on the “empty arguments” point:

Plus, just know… Designers that know code, while they have the same years of experience than you and even less sometimes, will always be better designers than you. Don’t take it personal, it’s a simple matter of fact.

It’s not a self-evident “simple matter of fact” that designers who code are better than those who don’t. If you want to argue your point of view in a convincing way, you need to supply reasons for your position, not meander through a story about cage fighting and then declare something unrelated about design.

Sorry that my original comment wasn’t more helpful.

Edited to remove comments that might be mistaken for engaging the question of whether designers should code.

Loved the article. I've been thinking the same and I think UX Design will forever evolving as well. When design first started, most people were only focused in UI. Now it's UI, UX, dev, animations, prototyping. What's next? WebGL 3D, Virtual Reality...ect. You have to keep evolving like a Martial Artist.

I don't understand the hostility on this site sometimes. If I see an article that doesn't interest me on DN, I don't click on it. Just because a topic doesn't meet a handful of individual's personal preference, doesn't make it off limits.