I never said programming was easy. I don't expect nor would want all software engineers to be good at design either. That be ing said, are you building front-facing products (say iOS or a front-end for a web application) you'd be better off with a software engineer who can design. Than a designer that can do photoshop mockups. Not everyone on that product team should know how to design out of the engineers.

But I am saying that designer that can't code their front-end, wether thats web or mobile, is kinda weird for 2014?

I never said design was unnecessary, I said a designer who' a single skill queen (in my world) is unnecessary. No one is advocating that design lack importance, but unless you can code the interface you design, you really don't add much value. Like an MBA with the next social media idea that will acquire a billion users in a week because it's such an amazing idea.

Implementation is the only thing that matters and ironically design is subjective enough for that.

Not to be confused with an illustrator - drawing is fuckhard.