I spent 2 years as a UI/UX designer before switching to code.

I spent 2 years as a UI/UX designer before switching to code. Designers who can't code build impossible things. Developers who can't design build ugly things. Here’s why being BOTH saved my career… In my first dev job, I watched a senior engineer spend 3 days building a dashboard. It worked perfectly. But users couldn't find the main action. I had to bite my tongue while he argued "the data is there, they just need to look." They didn't look. They left. Meanwhile, designers on my team would hand me Figma files with 12px margins and 8 different font sizes. "Make it pixel-perfect," they'd say 🤨 I would explain responsive constraints…. They'd say "just code it." I coded it. It broke on mobile. They blamed me. Sound familiar? 😆 The breaking point…. I rebuilt that same dashboard in 6 hours. Not because I'm a 10x engineer. Because I designed it FIRST in Figma, tested the flow, then coded. The senior dev took 3 days because he was designing in the browser. I was designing in Figma, building i