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Yep, designers sell their designs whereas developers sell their expertise. It's this way because that's what the market wants right now. When companies start to hire designers because their good and not because their portfolio contains stuff they've never seen before, designers will become more open.

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Pretty much true. FlatUI is great, but as a designer, you will want to build something more unique and while FlatUI could be a good start, it will not be the end product. For a developer, fast prototyping and building normally means that one simply utilise the top layer element from repo like this(FlatUI) and focus more on the underlying code.

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