Great post Ryan, I couldn’t agree with you more. Personally I started out as a designer am now am a designer and intermediate developer. I can’t seem to find anyone with the desire you have to understand a project or take the time to understand design concepts… most developers I deal with couldn’t care less.

Maybe your next topic could be about spec work, I wrote about that: http://www.justinpaulonline.com/spec-work-stack-work-whats-the-difference/

Great article however