In reply to Kevin Trye.

A gentle suggestion: Don't be locked into thinking that designers are left brain and developers are right brain. That limits your expectations of those you work with, as well as yourself, imo. I live in both worlds and love the challenge of creating unusual design that excites and that is built with lean, zippy, optimized code.

My life interests began with writing, moved into journalism and have evolved over the decades into other areas..marketing, business, programming, even server management. A few years ago, I wondered why I could get happily lost for days inside a screen of growing lines of code. As chance would have it, I discovered a small book that discussed why writers made great programmers. I felt relief. Until that moment, I truly was puzzled by my love of the creative, the rigor of writing and the geeky world of programming, which was further complicated by being an aged female.

It did teach me that there is an area of overlap between the two worlds. I live in that overlap. Not everyone does, of course. I've met them, also. It's far more rewarding, I think, to interact with people as individuals, rather than assuming a group membership.