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.
replyI was in web agencies since like 2002-2015, always got PSDs from either clients or internal designers
reply100%. I was always told to slice the PSD, fireworks never entered the conversation in the agency world I was a part of.
replySure, 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...
replyI've even received designs in PowerPoint
replyEveryone used whatever they were familiar with regardless of the purpose of the application.
Many designers stuck with Photoshop sadly. Back when I did agency work it was absolutely normal to get PSDs of mockups.
replyI think his point was made regardless of his mistake
replyI wouldn't even classify it as a mistake, just a difference in experience regardless of what Adobe's intentions were.
replyAs 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.