Depends. I’ve never used Tailwind, so I’ll entertain your aside. If you are mostly doing flat design, truthfully you should be designing in HTML/CSS/JS. This is

Depends. I’ve never used Tailwind, so I’ll entertain your aside. If you are mostly doing flat design, truthfully you should be designing in HTML/CSS/JS. This is a failure of setting expectations for designers. If you can get developers to learn Leetcode, get designers to code their designs. Design in the browser with browser technology, it’s just boxes, gradients and shadows for industrial level web design at the moment. You really shouldn’t even be designing in a tool like Photoshop or Figma given the current design paradigms. You will not iterate faster than what I am suggesting. Edit: The reason why we are here, why something like Tailwind and MUI exist, is mostly because we need an abstraction layer to do what a designer does on a whim. You can flick a shadow on and off on a Photoshop layer and mess with the subtlety of a drop shadow with a slider. If a designer makes a fickle change, the developer needs this abstraction to make the fickle change as fickle as the thought that made it. That’s why you have all these quick utility methods. The designer is one layer (no pun intended) removed. In 2021 (2022 really), it’s shocking the amount of latitude we give designers to still not be able to do CSS. A half competent designer could have a modest style sheet that mostly captures their design instincts, yet here we are, unable to capture their whims and must now have an albatross utility library to have manual laborers capture the translation - all because … they still won’t learn basic shit. And for what ultimately? These aren’t baroque art pieces, it is ultimately boxes with an aesthetic applied, all very describable with semantic HTML and CSS. But alas, our brilliant artists can’t be bothered. Here, send me your masterpiece so I can transform it for you. Take the bootcamp on web dev. You are literally the people I want going there. Not the Classics major that needs money because they picked a stupid major. It’s you guys that need it, and deserve it.