A web designer focuses on the visual design and aesthetics of a website, using tools like Photoshop and Sketch. They are responsible for elements like color, layout, images, and user experience. A web developer works with website code, using languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and server-side languages like PHP and Ruby. They take the visual designs and make the site functional by developing the code. Some people do both roles, but web designers typically focus on visual design problems while web developers solve problems through coding. The video provides advice for determining which role may be a better fit based on one's interests and strengths.

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what's the difference between a web
designer and a web developer and which one would be a better fit for you let's figure it out
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out those differences between a
web designer and a web developer and it's a great career to be kind of pursuing but when
you're first starting out you kind of don't know maybe where you fit and so there are some
people that are kind of both and there is a lot of crossover between the two fields but I
want to talk specifically about the roles the tools and the expectations of the two different
kind of fields and then which one is the best kind of fit for you let's first start by kind of
defining the two fields will start with web design I'm going to use a car analogy a web
designer would be the person who kind of designs the aesthetics of the car what the car
looks like what the car looks like on the exterior on the interior how it feels all of that stuff
the experience the aesthetic that's a web designer the web developer would be
responsible for all of those internal kind of components like the engine and the
transmission and and and all the other parts of the car that you don't even realize you're
using when you're using it that's the web developer it makes it function makes it move
makes it go but just like an engine is useless without the car and the car itself is useless
without the engine the two have to go together inevitably they're gonna go together they're
either gonna be the same person a web designer and developer or they're gonna be
working in the same team and they're gonna utilizing each other's strengths and skillsets to
accomplish their goal I'm gonna first start by talking about design okay so a web design or
design in general the tools of the trade for designer are going to be aesthetic tools like
Photoshop or sketch interface design tools user experience tools but these would be the
tools that have the aesthetic of any sort of design whether that's print design web design
product design whatever it is these are going to be the things that you can actually create
things to look at okay so visual tools knowing how to use those tools and so it's important
that you know those tools it's important that not only do you know the tools but you know
some of the principles and the foundations of design so we're talking about color and
space and line and form and all of those things this is the realm of a designer but but yes
also wen designers now web designers don't need to know how to code you can be I know
plenty of designers that are purely designers and they work at web agencies marketing
agencies they
do freelance and and they
themselves do not code okay but knowing what code is and how it kind of interacts will
better
design for the medium does that make sense
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like like knowing what's possible and
what's not possible so knowing you don't have to code but knowing some ideas about
code what's possible what's not possible what needs to be documented what needs to be
explained that's that's the signs of a good web designer web developers and and all

2. developers work with code the web developers specifically I would say spend the
majority of their time working with what's called client-side code
okay so client-side languages like HTML CSS JavaScript and there's even some
JavaScript frameworks like react or node or backbone working with those three that's the
bread and butter of a web developer now a developer in general learns and speaks coding
languages so if you kind of drip into back-end development which a lot of web developers
do they would speak more server-side languages like PHP or Ruby and and on all those
different server-side kind of technologies if you want to be a web developer specifically you
probably need to know your HTML and CSS and your JavaScript like that's your bread and
butter you need to know that and have that like Pat and you probably want to have a good
idea or at least some experience with server-side languages like Ruby or or PHP or
whatever so that's kind of the realm of a web developer you spend all of your time in a text
editor in a code editor but that is the realm of a web developer it is not visual it is taking the
visual and making it functional remember like engine and car ok let's talk day to day kind of
like operations the designer is gonna spend a lot of time looking for inspiration making
visual sense and trying to visually communicate the message of the brand or the company
or the site itself they're gonna spend the majority of their time doing visual things and and
that can be anything from wire framing to mood boarding to creating brands and logos and
websites and animations and all that kind of stuff you're doing everything and anything that
is visual for a web developer on their day to day they're going to be spending time in code
they're gonna be receiving the visuals and the documentation from the web designer and
they should be working in tandem they should be working closely not in a silo but closely
with the designers to make sure that the functionality is
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or the project demands but it's also on par with the styles that the designer has handed
over those deliverables that.are handed over need to be executed by the developer and so
they're gonna be spending the majority of their time in code creating branches in github
we'll talk more about that in different video but basically creating and making the vehicle
move per the restraints of the designer and the designer is designing things / restraints of
the client or the
project so which one is the right field
for you should you start pursuing design should you start pursuing development should
you start pursuing both I'm going to give you a couple opinions of mine on how to kind of
decide where to go from here so which one is going to be for you my opinion is this from
stick it from somebody who's done both and does both if you are a person who enjoys the
visual aspects of things and and remember design is problem-solving it's just it's not just
making pretty things but if you're somebody who likes to express your problem-solving
through visual modes of solution like III think I could make sense of that using color I feel
like I could make sense of that using typography and photography and all those things
then then design might actually be more for you okay somebody who likes to make sense
of problems that way if you are a person who likes to do puzzles face down if you're a
person who likes to analyze things and if you were the kid that liked to take your
remotecontrol car apart and see how it worked you might be the person who's a developer
just say maybe dabble try a little bit of both of them out and see which one suits you and
then follow it and here's I think the good news is none of this is final because these things

3. are so closely related in the creative or tech kind of world you have the ability to change
your mind you have the ability to kind of flex and decide where you want to be where you
want your kind of space to be I started out doing thinking I want to do nothing but print
design and package design and I realized very quickly I hated math and I moved over to
digital design and now I do primarily interface design experience design and front-end
development and that's what I really really love to do but it took me some years to figure it
out so I hope this video has really helped in some way for those of you that are just starting
out trying to figure out which one would be for you I think both of them are awesome
careers and we're really really excited for you to start down one of these paths both those
of both of these paths whatever it is that that kind of floats your boat and suits you I just
hope whether you go down the path of the design or down the path of like development I
just hope that you enjoy yourself because this is really a career that has a lot a lot of
people to escape jobs that they hate and be part of something and actually create
something and make things that they really care about either way you are a maker of
things and that's huge that's just so huge and so I just really want to encourage you today
to be making awesome stuff be designing be developing however it is that you make make
amazing things and do it in excellence if you have any questions please let me know
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