A stone wall with the word HTML painted on it. Photo courtesy of Markus Tacker. My friend Bryan recently asked me for career advice. He’s a full-time user experience (UX) designer who works for a large, well-funded startup. Bryan said he sometimes struggles at work because he doesn’t have front-end development skills. He experiences challenges like these: Bryan doesn’t always speak the same language developers use when discussing design work. He can’t make simple changes to a hand-coded prototype.