What is a Full Stack Designer? 2023 Roadmap 

Which of these skills do you have?!

Started of as an UI/UX designer, then fell in love with brand designing, then no code website builders! I plan on becoming a freelancer designer who designs branding as well as brand's websites!

I completely agree with the Frontend Developer stack. As a Fullstack Designer, I barely write JavaScript nowadays. Maybe I'll use it to create a mobile menu or accordion, but for the most part, I'm using GSAP for animations. I need to get into WebGL/Threejs though. That skillset takes web design up a different level.

I'm just returning to my career after a prolonged illness. One of the things I have been struggling with is how to promote myself and what my role actually is. Then I found your video! This is exactly my skillset. Thanks so much for covering this!

Loved ❤ this video. That's what I am thinking about! Soon I will be a full-stack Stack Designer!

Man you are a source of humankind for real, as a front end the way you separate in little chucks how all the design works into a brand creation, simply amazing, thank you.

Cool Gary, am sometimes confused whether to call myself a designer or developer or engineer but this also draws the context of design wide and clear. But the Hair though 😂

Great video, Gary. As a front-end developer, I found a lot of this interesting PS - Loving the hair and how you're rocking it! 😁😎

This is very informative! Thank you.

To be honest, considering the complexity of web today, using a framework like React, Vue, Svelt is a *must.* Otherwhise, you're be putting yourself for a really hard time on web developing.

Love this video. I have development goals for my career in 2023

Great video! What about the need to learn Adobe Illustrator for branding/logo design? And don’t forget Photoshop for image manipulation.

Really appricate this one ! I reconnize myself. Well next step, ThreeJS ;)

Great video! Thank you so much. One question tho, is knowledge in apps like Photoshop in photo editing required?

very interesting video, I would add to the mix a little bit of 3d and motion design (Blender and after effects for me), also some ability in Photoshop/illustrator/ and premier would be very helpful (for creating brand assets and content for your website)... adding copy-writing (UX copy specially) and some marketing/SEO to the mix is very important too (because in this case you usually create the whole brand experience for your users...) for everyone who is just beginning here, you typically take years to learn this stuff and be good at it, and of-course you will not be as good as a specialist (for ex: webGL developer) but it really depends on your goal, type of clients, and your personality type.... but you basically start with one role and expand into other roles while working on projects or full time job... also I would suggest to start by learning the foundations very well, like learning graphic design foundations and learning coding very well too... also investing in high quality courses can give you a competitive edge... For me for example I came from computer engineering BG, so I already learnt JS, HTML, CSS, and WordPress, some branding and UI design knowledge as well. I love learning new stuff, and trying different things out, right now I'm working on a branding/webdesign project for an existing company, so I had to learn tons of new stuff and revisit some stuff that I already knew, like learning adobe AI, Blender, storytelling, and tons of stuff about branding...

Hello, sir. You are magnificient!

Now a days in frontend development , companies need a person who mainly knows javascript frameworks like react angular vue, like you have to know frameworks side by side with html css and js and little bit knowledge or ui.

Very informative

I like full stack web designing (ui/ux, figma, html, css, Javascript, react, and development (node, git and github, express, mongodb, sql)

Thanks for the video, this is great to see others thinking about what it means to be a full stack designer. By your definition I would be a FS designer + UX Research and UX Strategy. I’ve also worked as a front end designer so I’ve got that covered, along with interaction design. My professional title is Lead UX Architect, which is something that distinguishes my ability to do end to end UX ( within the agency I work for ) . I also do AV production and now moving into XR design. One thing I’ve noticed is the emergence of the term ‘experience designer’ where ‘user’ is not part of the title. I’m seeing this with UI or digital designers that are doing a little bit more than usual. It does however concern me as they are often not trained or qualified in pure UX activities. I do believe a full stack designer should know a bit of html and css, but not necessarily js. However a good interaction designer should be fluent in js as well as front-end development, with the ability to do basic html prototypes. My definitions would look a bit like this… UX ARCHITECT ( End to end practitioner ) > UX Research + UX Strategy + UX Design FULL STACK DESIGNER > UI Designer + Web Designer + Digital designer + Graphic Designer DESIGN UNICORN All of the above + Front-end dev. SPECIALISMS > Interaction Designer / VFX Motion Graphics Designer / Finished Artist / XR Designer As a design unicorn with some of the specialisms, would love to chat more about the emergence of FS designer vs experience designer :-) Happy to share LinkedIn / Folio etc upon request.

Hey man that is agreate content, but what about Photoshop, Illustrator, and other tools?

Lunacy is a great software, please make some more videos about it

I know you're young but the term "full stack Designer" has been around since before people were called full stack Developers. And here's the deal, they don't need ANY development knowledge, but they do need much more design skills than you realize. I first heard of it in the late 90's when my boss told me to hire one. I was the lead developer and I also did a lot of design. But I was weak on on print mediums. He wanted someone who could do websites, web ads, video, Print ads, newspaper ads, yellow pages ads, TV, Billboards, Digital Billboards and even products boxes and labels. That's what anyone I've ever heard use this phrase or anything like it was referring too. Some who can design and develop is a different animal, sometimes called a "Deseloper" but nowadays is just referred to as a "Designer/Developer".

I rarely heard full stack designer from anyone but I call myself a full stack UI/UX designer & mentioned in my social profiles. Nice to mentioned by my mentor.

Al fin alguien lo menciona 😃

Can you make a video for XR designer?

I love this term 😎

Huh interesting I didn't think the term would've involved Front End Dev but rather things like designing physical branding stuff like product tags/labels

Nice 👍

Hey Gary great video ! Very Informative. Are you on Udemy and if so Id be interested in taking courses from you and learning the fundamentals.

I thought I was a UX Engineer but then this Full-stack Designer title also suits me. What should I use 🤔

Will the designcourse website cover these Fullstack Designer skills? I only saw UI/UX and CSS, last time.

Hi sir👋👋 I have got a question for you. Is exporting framer file into figma possible?

What about React? Does a full stack designer have to learn this?

Sounds like you are describing a Front-End-Developer with some Design skills. I would remove the huge development part (besides from basics) and rather add Illustration and Animation.

what is shaders, It's now clear to me

This strikes me as a Designer/Developer mix rather than a Full Stack Designer. I think as a tech community we SHOULD AVOID this misclassification. How I see it: A full-stack designer is someone who has skills in UX, UI, Interaction/Animation, Graphic, Illustration, 3D. Surely not everyone's style would need all of those (for example, you might not want to do 3D) but these are what design skills are. I'd argue understanding the box model is part of UI design, you can even stretch it and add no-code development tools. UX is NOT optional for a full-stack designer creating digital products, same as the back-end development is not optional for full-stack developers coding large-scale apps. However, having front-end development skills is a bonus, though should remain under the umbrella it belongs to, full-stack development. As someone who designs and develops this only brings confusion to people, which is our job as designers to eliminate. I really hope we as a tech community can have more clarity and stop using the same terms for different meanings.

I have learned soo muche from you and others over the years, but when it comes to Javascript I struggle really hard to get it im still stuck at the basics I have come to a pause due to the difficulty of understanding Javascript hopefully one day I'll pick back up on it and maybe grow to love it, but as of now I don't like it lol

The term "Full Stack Designer" doesn't work, especially if including Front End (Web) Development. While HTML and CSS are more design based languages in concept but, JavaScript is a scripting language. A designer should never have to be a developer. So, essentially a "Full Stack Designer" is just a UX/UI Designer who knows Front End Web Development. A designer is the person who decides the look and feel. A developer is the person who builds it. There is no full stack design. Just a UX/UI designer that also knows front end web development.

I’d recommend Framer for prototyping over protopie.

Thanks for your video, I just wonder why you exclude the XD as a prototype tool? I think that Adobe XD is a nice tool like Figma, protopie, sketch, etc. Do you have any special reasons?

Proximity? That's a new one that you don't cover in your course unless it's later in the course.

Web Animations API is better than GSAP

too good to be 18 min instead of 18hrs 😅

Research and testing being unnecessary to "full" stack design is music to my ears

Would a Full Stack Designer be a Webmaster?

Im one of them that hate adobe.

I don't think, I know, full stack designer is a word that someone formulated in their dreams, unnecessary to me

Even This title giving me anxiety

There is no such thing as a full stack developer. There are so many stacks and platforms nobody can call themselves full stack it's a nonsense term.

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More role bloating on the market. Not good and definitely not a role to take seriously. There are very very few who could be good at all things.