A question everyone has in their mind… Should frontend developers be able to make great designs?
As a frontend developer, I thought its not my job. My job is to write application logic, handle login flow, make API requests and deliver overall fast experience to the user and this reflected in my side projects. And when I was working for companies we were using some bootstrap template.
But I was getting bored of making CRUD apps and the question was eating me up. Should I improve my design skills? Would I be judged on the basis of my design skills or my ability to write scalable CSS.
Some things which got clear pretty early on was in a small startup, front-end devs have to take care of the design. Most of the time startups don’t have full-time designers. Either they give the whole frontend to be built on contract or hire a frontend dev and ask them to build the design.