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.
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I made one specifically for building mini apps prompts + example code all in one text file. DC me if u have questions:
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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.
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Gonna try this out. Tried using Manus the other day and it was pretty incredible, especially for a novice such as myself
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 point was that actually designing in a GUI is nonsense and the text editor is your best friend. good work is creating builds & documentation that scales and leads to impact that compounds.
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