UX design vs coding

Unlike coding or programming, you can not google and stackoverflow your way out of most UI or UX design problem. Too much depends on situation, perception and environment. There is to much “humanware” for of out-of-the-shelf design.

Designer must have theoretical knowledge. In other words: designers should read theory books on design, human factors, human machine interactions and so on.

This is also true for cutting edge programming problems, e.g. self-driving, vision, reasoning, natural language understanding, but for completely different reasons.