@peacenode.eth

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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