Design
Traditionally, design was seen as a way to show a look and feel of a product before going into production. This was typically done by arrangement of typography, lines, shapes and colors following a set of specifications.
Today, designers are seen as storytellers tasked with understanding the user's goals and creating a journey that compliments needs, wants, and pain points of the target audience.
Design is ever evolving with the injection of new technologies everyday, a strong UI/UX designer will hold a strong understanding and experience of web technologies to meet all milestones of a project.
Prototyping
A powerful tool for all designs today. A number of services are available today for designers to bring their designs alive and communicate all journeys.
A stand out designer is one with skills in the leading front-end technologies: HTML, CSS, and Javascript. These three languages are all that's needed to develop an array of testing and communication for both internal and external customers.
My career timeline has brought opportunities to work with a number of languages outside of front-end technology: PHP 4, jQuery, SQL, Coldfusion, Java, and Solidity (Web3).