Designers depend on programmers to take it from mockup to prototype. How can that be done if nobody knows about it?
You are saying that a mockup is basically nothing, that anyone can do it. If that's true, why do we need designers at all?
You are saying that a mockup is basically nothing, that anyone can do it. If that's true, why do we need designers at all?
Most of the time the only people I hear complaining about UI design are UI designers. Except for exceptionally bad cases, most people don't care too much what their applications look like.
And most people would rather have a working implementation with an ugly UI than a pretty picture/mockup that doesn't do anything.
If all the designer can do is mockups, then IMHO they are not doing their full job. Like I said in the other reply, it's like a programmer saying "I made the DB schema, what more do you want?"