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That's one useless designer.. if the designer does can't produce their own fucking design. That's where we get photoshop monkeys.

30 mb PSD vs someone who can code their design. Your pick.

Agreed. That is one useless designer. When I hired designers I would only hire people who could write front-end code as well as they designed.

I understand that there may be a need of that in small projects

I've did both: having a design than translation to HTML and people that could do both

There's an advantage to someone that will focus only on the design and another that will focus on only translating that to HTML/CSS/JS namely, that someone that can do both very well is rare

But of course, if they can do the design and a basic html/css of it usually can move the project faster. You will not have the greatest design or greatest html/css but it will usually arrive at a good solution

You mean a web designer? or just a designer? If you are going to design for the web and you DON'T know HTML and CSS then you are pretty fucked.

A designer needs to know the medium he's working with and it's limitations to produce a good design.