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>  In seriousness though, it is tough to focus on both at the same time:
>  in periods when I've been doing heavy coding my design skills have
>  atrophied (and we won't even go into my illustration skills…). And
>  during times when I've been mostly wireframing and/or comping in
>  Illustrator or P'shop my coding skills have atrophied. FWIW, visual
>  design skills seem to fade faster (interaction design not so much).

I also find that's the case. I can be knee deep in wireframing or
mocking something up, then get a call to investigate an coding issue
somewhere - suddenly you find yourself trying to get you head out of
the state of looking at things from a broad overview, have to zoom
right in to the minute details.

jb

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