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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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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.

Those days aren’t over. HN uses nested tables with 1x1 transparent spacer.gif images.

I like that HN’s design is timeless. It’s a shame people usually ignore it, or are critical of it.

The text is barely legible, and you can hardly ever click on the actual target you want (e.g. upvote vs downvote).

It's timeless in that it was never good to begin with, it is just actively malicious now for anyone using it from a touch interface.

> It's timeless in that it was never good to begin with

True but it shows that good design doesn't matter.

Also: Craigslist, Reddit, LinkedIn...the list goes on.

Yeah +1, at the start of my career (mid 2000s) all the web designs were done in Photoshop. I think this was true until 2010/11 at least, when I first encountered Axure being used for some design stuff. I’ve never used Fireworks and never saw it in the wild (UK, in case it was a regional thing)

I was in web agencies since like 2002-2015, always got PSDs from either clients or internal designers

100%. I was always told to slice the PSD, fireworks never entered the conversation in the agency world I was a part of.

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...

I've even received designs in PowerPoint

Everyone 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.

I've seen the front end devs get PSD files as recently as 2021.

I think his point was made regardless of his mistake

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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