It has recently come to my attention that Design Twitter™ has a few questions that they can’t seem to answer. As always, I am here to help*.

*tell you what to think

1. Yes. Designers should be able to code. They should also be able to:
*Tango
*Change a tire
*Produce a creditable black forest roulade with minimal cracking and NO soggy bottom
*Design
*Summon a demon

2. Nobody is a Designer. Only one person has ever reached the state of mental clarity and perfection required to be a Designer, and they immediately ascended to a different astral plane. Or else they spontaneously combusted. You’ll never know because you are not a Designer.

3. All interviews must feature a design exercise. The only correct design exercise is Jazzercise.

4. Designers must do all their own research. They must also get their own participants, write their own consent forms, handcraft the paper for the forms, and harvest the trees for the paper. And yes, obviously they need to reforest. JFC, people. It’s called design ethics.

5. The people who use your product must be referred to as “mortals." You may also call them “foolish mortals,” but only if they are particularly awful or you work in enterprise. You must never call them “users” because of drugs or something.

6. There is no difference between UX and UI. They are exactly the same. They are even spelled the same.
No, you’re wrong. Look again.

7. The correct number of research participants is the square root of -1. I am told this is a hilarious math joke and that the right people will get it.

These are all canon now. Dissent will not be tolerated. Dissenters will be shunned.

Design Twitter™ is now free to have entirely different arguments about equally stupid shit. You’re welcome.

This truly remarkable thought leadership continues here: https://twitter.com/lauraklein/status/1158799674481840128