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What the hell is this article talking about? Designers used to hand development teams PSD files. Or Illustrator files. Or, in the golden times, Fireworks files. Designers rarely handed us CSS and markup.

... did this person just start in the industry like three years ago?

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No quite the opposite. I have been around for a long time :)

It used to be completely normal for companies to have developers who worked in php or ruby on rails and have designers take care of the css.

You are absolutely right that in the early days many UI designers came from graphic design and worked in photoshop. But the fact that they also existed in some companies isn't really relevant.

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