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The race is on: can Figma become a good enough vibe coding tool before the vibe coding tools can become a good enough figma.

director of product @seedclub. we built @crowdfund. i design & dev social, crypto, and ai software. i interview crypto builders @ web3galaxybrain.com.

the core screens were designed in v0 by prompt. we rebuilt them afterwards by hand but we skipped figma altogether

They’ve already lost. v0 is still way too opinionated but as they improve for more creative flexibility i don’t see why devs would hire a designer. At least at the prototype stage

I feel like they should have focused on Cursor for designing first, then added coding later. 

They can’t beat the coding tools out there. But they could make designing so much faster and easier.

My thoughts exactly. Why not just build it right away. Cursor is much closer to the actual outcome of a tangible product or usable feature

i think they'll still be two different products  

though you're right, they're both targeting design -> code pipeline 

i currently find it way easier to go straight to cursor vs figma to cursor, but if figma can go from prompt to wire frame to code ... maybe game over?

Tools like v0.dev are already allowing you to vibe code & design through prompting. You can paste screenshots for inspiration. 

Before I did 2-3 days of design work and 1+ week of engineering.

Now I do both in 2-3 days.

I made one specifically for building mini apps prompts + example code all in one text file. DC me if u have questions:

https://www.scaffold.wiki/

Do you have any examples of "rules" or best practices that you use?

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8 says it doesn't look good. They had such a massive head start — they were already generating code from designs! Easy Storybook integrations! — but they seem to have overlooked the potential for too long. They were focused on designers as design took a back seat to progress & outcomes; it's not a question about building the tech, it's about serving a new user and customer.

Dylan is wicked smart, but from the outside it looks like they're too bogged down by internal battles & inertia. His interview on Invest Like the Best was intolerable for me; he had nothing to say about how AI is changing their product & business. 

I'm hopeful they find a way, though. Product design was already having a rough season, and Figma might be the last defense against self-referential product design slop.

tech will commoditize. it's all a brand game now

thus over long enough timeframe...the brands that let user to share the upside and have a stake in their success will win

Gonna try this out. Tried using Manus the other day and it was pretty incredible, especially for a novice such as myself

thought contributor & graphic applicator ,, doing things online that i believe in w/ @seedclub

All I got out of that is that everything should be a button

Is good work creating or editing? Is discernment more critical to design than execution?

i love figma as a collaboration tool. infinite canvas with all your buddies is exactly what i feel the internet should be. 

in practice tho, i find the highest impact figma work to just be crushing tokens and using values from libraries that dev's use. you have to type all this manually into a figma (or use a likely incorrect community library), you may as well just customize globals.css or a tailwind config.

figma is lowkey is react training wheels. imo it should lean in on being that first with npm packages as variables from the jump. 

i'm really still a student and all the time i'm typing into the terminal wondering why the hell can't this command be a button (naive) so maybe more visual editors will win out in some future.

web & product designers should get into react, tailwind, threejs, d3js before they get excited about not learning how things work. i feel a lot of my time was wasted learning figma.

as much as we may want it, i do not believe there is a skip button for good work.

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My bet is on Figma until AI can design something better than a human can.

1000% needed for them to stay relevant but long term their model relies on seats so they’re probably fkd from a VC perspective

The supabase integration looks awesome, it was already easy to integrate, but now connecting design to auth/backend in one place is great.

Do you have any favorite resources for someone just getting into figma?