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+1 and and I also heartily recommend About Face. I should also say that there is no reason one person couldn't be an excellent programmer and an excellent UX designer and I know several people who have switched between the two career paths. The trick is what are your priorities on the project. It would be extremely difficult to dedicate enough hours to both tasks and not shortchange one or the other. Especially when you're trying to agile.
– jiggy
Commented May 24, 2011 at 18:06
jiggy: there's one reason: time ;) But I agree, there's nothing special about neither design nor programming but it's a matter of hours of experience. If you're good at both you're either old or have no life. I try to justify my own foolish beliefs of competency in both areas with that I'm little bit of both :) Sadly though there's a common Dunning-Kruger effect of people thinking design is "easy" and that they're good at it
– Homde
Commented May 25, 2011 at 8:49
You lost me when you recommended "Inmates". I hate that book because he pushes so much blame out to programmers absolving management. Cooper is also notably poor at giving credit to many of the people who invented techniques he popularised.
– Andy Dent
Commented Mar 19, 2012 at 7:03
If you think getting good at interaction design is as hard as getting good at programming you must have some sort of natural talent for programming :/
– robert
Commented Nov 20, 2014 at 15:03

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