> only it was "Photoshop files hold the (design) truth" before

You mean Fireworks. Photoshop was for graphic design. Web designers used Adobe Fireworks. Figma is a successor to Fireworks, not Photoshop.

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chrisan 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I was in web agencies since like 2002-2015, always got PSDs from either clients or internal designers

	▲	fuzzy_biscuit 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		100%. I was always told to slice the PSD, fireworks never entered the conversation in the agency world I was a part of.

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amatecha 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nah yeah Photoshop .PSD's were totally normal for website designs. I got extremely proficient at building functioning websites based on PSD files, going back as far as the days of using nested <table> structures with 1x1 transparent spacer.gif images :) I built hundreds of websites from .PSD files, and Fireworks was pretty much non-existent in my experience.

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gregsadetsky 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sure, and also Illustrator sometimes, and Photoshop at other times. Some of the designers I know (very famous for their ui/web work) never touched vector components and just had a ton of layers in Photoshop and air/paintbrushed everything. Hence the meme...

	▲	mardef 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I've even received designs in PowerPoint Everyone used whatever they were familiar with regardless of the purpose of the application.

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telman17 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Many designers stuck with Photoshop sadly. Back when I did agency work it was absolutely normal to get PSDs of mockups.

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xeromal 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think his point was made regardless of his mistake

	▲	bayarearefugee 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I wouldn't even classify it as a mistake, just a difference in experience regardless of what Adobe's intentions were. As someone who has done front-end development for both web and mobile devices for a very long time in the pre-Figma days I was handed a lot more designs that were mocked up in Photoshop than Fireworks.