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by gregsadetsky4 hours ago |
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upvoteby peteforde4 hours ago|
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It's a real shame that people bought into this false dichotomy, because the base reality is that people who work in web dev that stubbornly pick either code or layout are more of a liability than an asset.

I don't believe that people who can design and code are as rare as folks seem to believe, either. What seems more likely is that there are a LOT of coders who are extremely fluent in CSS but aren't particularly gifted when it comes to making things look good.

It wasn't that long ago that designers understood that they couldn't just hand off a 2D comp of what they want to see. The job isn't done until the output can be integrated into the app. Nobody gets to launch cows over the wall and go for lunch.

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upvoteby sarchertech3 hours ago|
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It’s just one more example of people realizing that the code is the spec.
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upvoteby markdown4 hours ago|
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> only it was "Photoshop files hold the (design) truth" before

You mean Fireworks. Photoshop was for graphic design. Web designers used Adobe Fireworks. Figma is a successor to Fireworks, not Photoshop.

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upvoteby amatecha1 hours ago|
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Nah yeah Photoshop .PSD's were totally normal for website designs. I got extremely proficient at building functioning websites based on PSD files, going back as far as the days of using nested <table> structures with 1x1 transparent spacer.gif images :) I built hundreds of websites from .PSD files, and Fireworks was pretty much non-existent in my experience.
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upvoteby chrisan3 hours ago|
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I was in web agencies since like 2002-2015, always got PSDs from either clients or internal designers
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upvoteby fuzzy_biscuit3 hours ago|
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100%. I was always told to slice the PSD, fireworks never entered the conversation in the agency world I was a part of.
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upvoteby gregsadetsky4 hours ago|
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Sure, and also Illustrator sometimes, and Photoshop at other times. Some of the designers I know (very famous for their ui/web work) never touched vector components and just had a ton of layers in Photoshop and air/paintbrushed everything. Hence the meme...
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upvoteby mardef3 hours ago|
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I've even received designs in PowerPoint

Everyone used whatever they were familiar with regardless of the purpose of the application.

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upvoteby telman174 hours ago|
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Many designers stuck with Photoshop sadly. Back when I did agency work it was absolutely normal to get PSDs of mockups.
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upvoteby xeromal4 hours ago|
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I think his point was made regardless of his mistake
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upvoteby bayarearefugee4 hours ago|
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I wouldn't even classify it as a mistake, just a difference in experience regardless of what Adobe's intentions were.

As someone who has done front-end development for both web and mobile devices for a very long time in the pre-Figma days I was handed a lot more designs that were mocked up in Photoshop than Fireworks.

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