of them, but generally speaking it seems to me that female designers are more oriented towards designing web layouts than UI or coding HTML, CSS, etc. Have You Ever Experienced Any Negativity or Sexism Being in This Industry? Fortunately no, although sometimes I think that when I was younger I was taken less seriously because I'm a female. Still, it may have been so primarily because I was strongly focused on illustrations while they were much less popular than they are now. What I have noticed is that male-dominated web communities (forums etc) are much more cautious when criticizing design work of a woman than they are when the author is male. I don't think that's good, but with time you learn to filter the feedback you get, including the praise. Do You Think Female Designers Have Advantages Over Their Male Counterparts? Now I think that being a woman can be an advantage because we maybe have a different approach that is sometimes useful, and being a minority we are easier to notice. I, for one, do not like the separation of "male" and "female" design because I think that design is not so defined by the designer's gender as it is by his/hers skills of producing design that appears as "male" or "female". I know a lot of both male and female web designers and I think that their skill, approach, and client treatment are much more important for this profession than their gender. If You Were Not a