You mean, you got real designers when what you really wanted were production art technicians? Sounds even worse than that: you got interaction designers when you might have been happy with visual designers.
Most good designers don't have time to write code, but some bad/mediocre ones are ok at with it as they are less specialized. It's rare that designers would even have time to write code even if they could or wanted to; usually developers are blocked on them, not vice versa.
So what you want is an interaction+visual designer who can also do production and on top of that can write code. And you probably want them also to be good. Your company is screwed.
Most good designers don't have time to write code, but some bad/mediocre ones are ok at with it as they are less specialized. It's rare that designers would even have time to write code even if they could or wanted to; usually developers are blocked on them, not vice versa.
So what you want is an interaction+visual designer who can also do production and on top of that can write code. And you probably want them also to be good. Your company is screwed.