[crote]

I'm definitely one of those strictly-programming people.

Sure, I can probably hack together a sorta-kinda technically-usable UI, but I know I'm awful at it. In my professional life I quite early on realized any attempt on my side is just a waste of time and effort, so these days as a mostly-backend developer I don't go beyond sticking bare unstyled HTML elements on a page to demonstrate basic functionality. I'll leave all the design stuff to the people who are actually good at it!

[dylan604]

It's not that hard though to make a drastic improvement over that. Basic CSS isn't complicated. Sure, there's quirky things, but it's still possible. As "over the weekend" type of projects, I have taken websites/apps with UIs that I've thought were interesting and recreated them with HTML/CSS. You learn a lot very quickly, and then your UIs start to suck a lot less. It's still coding as far as writing in and IDE and testing/fixing bugs. You just get to skip the compiling part of it!