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Working with a good designer that knows HTML+CSS is amazing. It is lovely to get delivered working responsive HTML documents to convert into the web site or web app compared to getting delivered photoshop/illustrator files. Apart from anything else a designer that knows HTML+CSS produces designs that actually work on the web. Designers that only know photoshop/illustrator invariably produce unworkable designs.

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Agreed. Of course, even if you do get PSD/Illustrator files, the designer should at least make it easy to get the necessary information required to build the page, extract assets, etc. Seen way too many non web designers just hand developers a flat picture with no way of getting the font styles or extracting images and expecting them to just guess.

It's also nice when the designer actually works to a style guide and designs things with a grid in mind rather than some sort of abstract art where even the basic text sizes seem to change on a block by block basis.

hell, I'd be happy if the designers I work with used XD instead of PS or AI so that they at least had a change of reasoning about their "responsive" layouts.

Being handed a PSD for "desktop" and a PSD for "mobile" one time is one time too many. Especially when they put fixed height elements for dynamic content everywhere and get surprised once the dynamic content starts doing its dynamic things

I sometimes just use vw units everywhere if i get a design like that.

I do that at times when the designer won’t listen, but my professional pride hurts each time

UX/Product Designers that are using photoshop or illustrator to deliver a full page designs are wasting everybody's time. They should learn Sketch, InVision Studio or XD.

Agreed wholeheartedly. The whole concept of a graphic designer creating static images of layouts, which are then translated into code by a programmer, should die in fire. It's just another instance of nontechnical people writing specs for applications and having programmers translate them into code. UI/UX design is not graphic design or programming. It is both and neither.

Though some designers really do know UI/UX design, they just aren't as much of an expert with HTML/CSS.

How can they design a good responsive webpage if they don't understand HTML/CSS?

I could not agree more. Iteration time is shortened and I usually get better results faster with a designer that can write HTML + CSS. It's really hard to work differently now.

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