I feel that the main issue is that "Designers" that are great at design, often are pretty difficult to work into the dev processes of a bootstrapped startup, wi

I feel that the main issue is that "Designers" that are great at design, often are pretty difficult to work into the dev processes of a bootstrapped startup, without slowing things down. Therefore design gets prioritized lower than features and this has an undesirable outcome for everyone. A great designer (for an early stage company of 1-2 people) should be able to turn a PSD into HTML/CSS and work with tools like smarty templates. Its just my two cents, and the requirement certainly changes over time...but in the early days, the most useful thing a startup could get us someone that can easily integrate with the dev process.