>They didn't just lob PSDs over the partition to the devs
You were one of the lucky ones. I worked with designers who would've done fine designing a printed flyer, but couldn't comprehend the idea of a scrolling website with dynamically-populated content (of varying lengths) being viewed at different sizes on different devices/browsers.
Their solutions were along the line of "Force the browser to be XxY resolution and limit the number of words that can be entered in this area."
You were one of the lucky ones. I worked with designers who would've done fine designing a printed flyer, but couldn't comprehend the idea of a scrolling website with dynamically-populated content (of varying lengths) being viewed at different sizes on different devices/browsers.
Their solutions were along the line of "Force the browser to be XxY resolution and limit the number of words that can be entered in this area."