More often than not you'll either be strong in design/art, OR strong in programming.
There are of course amazing artists that are brilliant coders, but this would be far more rare than the norm, which is one or the other.
Saying that, I'm a bit of a hybrid, not a great designer, and not a great programmer ;-)
I suspect hybrid types are born of necessity; i.e. when one knows neither how to design a website, nor how to program. BA/MA graduates building websites for a living likely occupy much of this space.
I suspect pure programmers are those with a CS degree who found work right out of college, diving directly into Java/C-family projects for Big Co., what need for design/art?
More often than not you'll either be strong in design/art, OR strong in programming.
The question is though whether that's a natural law, or an artefact of the culture of those communities of practice. Personally I lean towards the latter.
I'm seeing a lot more dev folk get more than competent on the design side (and a few UX folk getting competent on the dev side).
There are of course amazing artists that are brilliant coders, but this would be far more rare than the norm, which is one or the other.
Saying that, I'm a bit of a hybrid, not a great designer, and not a great programmer ;-)
I suspect hybrid types are born of necessity; i.e. when one knows neither how to design a website, nor how to program. BA/MA graduates building websites for a living likely occupy much of this space.
I suspect pure programmers are those with a CS degree who found work right out of college, diving directly into Java/C-family projects for Big Co., what need for design/art?