I think despite the fact that "UX" entered the picture a long time ago now, most people who are "UI/UX Designers" still focus heavily on how things look and hav

I think despite the fact that "UX" entered the picture a long time ago now, most people who are "UI/UX Designers" still focus heavily on how things look and have a much lower understanding of how things work and feel to use I also suspect that universities are still mostly teaching design as if it is something printed in a magazine and not rendered in a browser Designers I have worked with have shown a lack of understanding of the basic HTML input components, failing to understand what the difference is between a radio button and a checkbox for instance. But there's a lot more than that. They build designs without considering scrollbars, or without considering paginating large datasets. They don't plan for asynchronous operations that may not return immediately. Yes these are more technical concerns but they do impact the design! Designers should be asking questions about how long an operation they are building mockups for might take and planning accordingly But it's even worse than that. They want everything to neatly fit on a single screen, but they don't really understand display sizes and aspect ratios. This means they don't build (or really understand) responsive layouts. Very common to hear "this spacing looks off on my screen", as if it were designed for a consistent page size (print media) I don't know. Maybe I've just had pretty bad luck with designers. I'll admit most of the ones I've had trouble with are fairly fresh out of university, so it could just be a lack of real world experience. But some of the stuff just really gives me the impression they weren't taught to design for web or digital displays at all