All depends on what you consider a designer. In many ways, I think product guy s...

zaidf on Sept 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hiring a designer is a premature optimization

All depends on what you consider a designer. In many ways, I think product guy should know design--the full circle of it. I continue to see startups that hire designers who believe design is a PSD sent to the team to be converted and brought live. That is failure barring exceptional circumstances.

mattmanser on Sept 7, 2011 [–]

By the startup though, not the designer, he's just doing what he thought his job was.