[sjcrank]

I believe the answer to this question is clearly a "yes", if you are building UIs (web or otherwise).

As a 10+ year UI developer I have found that my work is often judged by its design as much as the quality of the code, and that I will not be successful unless good design is a part of the work, and I cannot always depend on having a solid dedicated designer contributing to the project.

[serg_chernata]

I try to do both but I think just like many things in life, the actual answer here is "it depends".

[nailer]

Quality of code is design [1]. Eg, copy pasting is not only a maintenance nightmare for other users of the code but also breaks Exupery's perfection principle.

[1] Not implying that interaction and appearance aren't also design, but rather that code and SCSS rules are designed too.

[collyw]

Yes, but I think what he is getting at is that no one other than devs gives a shit about code quality. Users do like a nice pretty looking interface.

[nailer]

Users also care if something works, and code quality is part of that - eg, imagine what hits users when the same bug is copy pasted into 100 slight variations of some code rather than a single instance.