Should Designers Learn to Code?

There has been much debate whether or not if designers should learn how to code. When thinking of designers, we think of that individuals designing a UI, UX, content, etc. When working in a small development team, you usually have a business analyst (scrum), a developer, and a designer. Business analyst’s are focused more on the front end of development. They are in charge or getting information across and acting as a “bridge” in meetings and usually talking for the developers. Developers are in charge of basically coding the program. They take all of the coding information and compile it together for a specific application. Designers, (like mentioned above), are in charge or designing the application. Some have said, designers need to learn how to code and memorize information. They say this because in meetings, they would be able to know how to communicate with others about how they designed the system. Now, there are tools that will do it for them. There are certain tool packages that will have the code and information they need. This debate is thrown up in the air for opinion.