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Why No-Code tools are ready to disrupt

With the right tools, we can close the gap between product and engineering.

Shamsi Brinn
UX Collective
5 min readFeb 20, 2023

A paper doll chain cut out of paper represents how closely teams of developers and designers and work together, with the right tools.
No-code tools facilitate true co-creation. Photo: Adobe Stock by Patpitchaya

“Designers shouldn’t ALSO have to code!”

This is a refrain I hear a lot. Some designers feel working with code is too complex; others that it is exploitative. They are not wrong. But prototyping is a transformative practice with profound implications for design. Contributing to a prototype opens new ways of communicating with users and other stakeholders, all in the universal language of the web.

Designers can’t just leave the room

There is too much at stake for designers to close the door on prototyping. What we need are no- and low-code tools that meet designers where we are at.

Designers are very interested in these tools, too. According to this uxtools.com survey, after Figma, the next 4 tools that designers are excited about in 2023 are no-code web builders or prototypers.

And the truth is using these tools is no more difficult than the complex interfaces we already rely on: Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc. Adobe’s user guide for Photoshop is nearly 1000 pages long! Even Jira is a hot mess of features and workflows. As designers, we use immensely complex tools all the time.

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