 The difference between web designer and web development is kind of like, maybe the easiest way is to look at it like you're building a house. So I guess the designer will be the architect who comes up with the plans and you design everything beforehand. And then I guess a construction team who delivered that is kind of like the developers and there's different types of developers. So how it works is normally when I'm designing the website you'll have a UX UI designer and a graphic designer or UI designer. So they'll work together they'll go through, they'll sketch out the website, they'll put wireframes together, they'll work through the whole user-centered design process and at the end they'll deliver basically kind of like a finished design and you know what, sometimes it won't be finished. Different companies just do it differently but when that designer's they think it's ready to go, how companies work now is they do this thing called agile development. So they'll, and you work in these things called stories so you'll take the design that the design has done, you'll break it down into small chunks and then you'll pass those small chunks on to the development team and then the front-end developers will make that real. So we work in completely different programs so a designer will work similar like Adobe XD or Vigma and a front-end developer to be honest I don't even know half the programs that they use but they put it together in code. Like there's different tools for design, there's different tools for putting it together in code but there's different skill sets involved. So I've doubled around in a little bit of front-end development and you know what it's quite fun, it's quite fun to actually build stuff. My brain doesn't work like that sometimes I get a bit frustrated when there's problems but they work in a few different types of web technologies so they work in HTML which is the actual fundamental code really for the website. It's not, it's not a huge library, it's not it's not massively, no this is rocket science but HTML is basically telling the computer what to display on the screen then the CSS, the HTML say here's a table then the CSS will say this table needs to look like this so the CSS is all the graphics all the fonts all the colouring all the styling for that table so the same piece of HTML could look a million different ways and that's all down to the CSS that they do and then there's things like JavaScript which is so you've got your table, you've got how it looks then JavaScript is kind of like the interactive part of it so it could be where's it pulling the data from, how it animates and the complex nature of it. There's front-end developers who do the visual start of putting the website together and there's back-end developers who do all the logic and they'll have databases where all the information is stored and the front-end people which is how the website is displayed on screen will figure out how to talk to the back-end people where all the information comes from and they're the ones who bring it together so if you're more into coding if you're more into I guess mathematics and logic and trying to make things work then development is more for you. Designers you know it's kind of changing over time and there's actual tools that are bringing them together so like webflow so webflow is something that you can design and develop in and I imagine over time possibly these two jobs are going to come together maybe more UI designers and developers I think UX is more research based and more I think it's too broad really to have one person do it all I imagine maybe in small companies and startups where they have limited funds you might get a UX designer UI and developer in one but for the majority of people I think it's best to separate your skill sets and go where you're passionate about if you're passionate about design and talking to customers and testing things then you might find UX more rewarded if you're more passionate about making things and maybe you don't have as much control about how it looks but you want to take something and make it then development might be the way to go and maybe if you like both you'll be lucky and find a job which combines both so the key differences are a designer will work in different programs they'll talk to customers more they'll put together a plan kind of like the architect lays out a house and then the developer will take that plan and make it a reality kind of like the construction team do on a house can still work with the architect and change things that they think the way it's implemented is not right because the architect isn't always 100% right and they they're not doing the groundwork so there's a relationship between the two but I think the different skill sets although they possibly could move together closer with the introduction of things like webflow and other tools but I still think the different mindsets really and I think there's always going to be an option for both and in my experience I've always found that there's more developers than designers because I think you can design things a lot quicker than you can actually make them and there's like bugs and testing goes along so possibly if you're looking for a job and you're worried about the amount of opportunities I'd probably say at the moment there's probably more development jobs but I may be wrong in the future that's just from my personal point of view and for the teams I work with maybe there's five developers to one designer but guys just go what you're passionate about if you're passionate and you have commitment and you know you're putting the work and you'll get a job doing either but there are two different skill sets let me know in the comments what you think you might disagree but this is just my own personal opinion and until next time keep designing or developing