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by kayodelycaon 1099 days ago
Yup. This is far from new. Used to be getting a zip file full of low quality photoshop exports and you would have better luck pulling teeth out of a cranky tiger(1) than getting proper assets (or the raw files) out of the art team.

My favorite was the PowerPoint presentation. Didn’t happen to me but I’ve heard about it.

1: Somewhat redundant. Any tiger you try to get teeth out is likely to be cranky before you finish the retrieval.

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I like the PPT - it is more like a wireframe!

Yes, similar to the photoshop days. I forgot all about those. Has been almost 10yr since I had that happen!

PPT doesn't bother me because it's very "what we need" not "how we need it" so I don't have to worry about the specifics and instead can focus on (and ask questions about) the intent of the feature.

I think you misunderstood. It was a powerpoint with images in it, not a wireframe. It show how site navigation worked, which was a huge improvement... minus having to dig the images out one at a time. :D

At least they didn't use document links with absolute paths. Macs don't have have a C:\Documents and Settings\Clueless\ folder. Encountered that a few times in my career.

i would consider even powerpoint lucky compared to an excel file with a bunch of images or even the design being made out of cells, rows and columns... yes, you read that correctly lol.

for all that trouble it still beats getting `design.jpg`