[agedclock]

I have never heard the term designer used to describe anyone doing anything else other than creating PSD mockup and later on wire-frames.

I have worked in large corps and smaller agencies as a full stack / front-end dev for about 18 years.

This wasn't just the case in my part of the world. There were prominent online publication that were extolling the virtues of designers embracing creating their designs in CSS and HTML and moving away from using Photoshop.

[AndreasMoeller]

What so what are you trying to say?

First you say that you have never herd of designers working with HTML and CSS and then you say that prominent online publications were advertising it?

[agedclock]

No. I didn't think what I said was that difficult to understand. But I will break it down.

- Designers were not working with HTML and CSS (this was about ~2008-2011). I met one "designer" who would do HTML and CSS back in about 2015. I met another woman that could do it in 2022. I've worked in a bunch of web agencies and corps.

- Some designers due to emergence of smart phones had started experimenting with using HTML 5 and CSS 3 to create responsive designed.

- There were articles in online publications and blogs where people were extolling the virtues of it, trying to convince others.

- This ultimately didn't happen. People are still using Photoshop if they are not using Figma. You have dedicated front-end devs and/or teams in most orgs if they actually care about the UX/UI quality. Otherwise they just just use a bootstrap/tailwind theme and call it a day.

I stopped doing frontend dev primarily back in 2023 after I realised I was still fixing the same stupid iOS bugs from a decade before hand.