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Is there such a thing as natural talent for specific categories of developers?

I've seen this occur a few times. I have more affinity for front-end development or separately, for UX, so I naturally see wireframes, I naturally know what looks good or not to a user, and I can relate to a user.

I've seen multiple backend devs who share the same complaint that they don't have a knack for front-end and that they hate front-end. They can create beautiful architectures and solve complex problems, but they tell me: "Don't ask me to tell you what looks like a good layout or not because I have no idea".

The same thing happens to me when it comes to back-end (even though I'm a Fullstack developer): Don't try to give me extremely complex problems because I will likely get very stuck, but ask me if a design would look good, ask me to design a website UX wise and I will do well without a great deal of effort.

I wonder why I have a hard time with back-end and others vice versa. Maybe we're trained more in certain areas or our brains function differently.

And so.. I wonder if more people see this happen in their workplace and if this observation holds true.

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    Yes I believe they are different aptitudes.

    Aesthetics, vs interaction intuition, vs logic. These are just different things.

    Most people don't have a whole bunch of different talents. They usually have on area they're best at.

    Every now and then you'll find someone who is really good at everything.
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    I only do backend / tooling. Never made smth pretty in my entire life in exception of amazing cli progress bars.

    I can spend ages on gui/design but it won't change a thing. Prolly steal layout from existing app if I have to.

    Someone few days ago complained here about u of dR while I think it's perfect. Is it me?
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    Absolutely yes
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