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by GenerWork 700 days ago
Figma is a tool and nothing more, despite some people to turn it into the end all be all of user experience. It will eventually be replaced with something, just as it replaced Sketch, and just like Sketch replaced Illustrator. I also noticed that the author barely touches on the people who make the interfaces (product designers). If the author gets their wish, businesses won't hesitate to axe their UX teams to save some costs.

Disclaimer: I'm a product designer who is very skeptical of the enthusiasm around AI as I can see a future where product will instead rely on AI instead of designers to create interfaces.
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ridd_design 700 days ago
author here I'm also a product designer! I'm skeptical of the current approach to AI-generated interfaces. But am a big believer that AI will fundamentally change the way we design products.

My high-level hypothesis is that in the same way browser-based design (Figma) displaced Sketch... code-based design will displace Figma. It will start with the longtail and smaller teams. Figma has a stranglehold on enterprise. But I refuse to believe I will be making vector pictures of products in the longrun. It will feel as easy to design interfaces in code. The article is an attempt at discouraging text-based prompting in that world though. I'd much rather have a modern sketching/wireframing tool connected to my code base and design system.

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chamsom 700 days ago
Getting designers willing to setup their workstation to hand code a React app with dozens of dependencies and be constrained by the DOM is not going to go very well. And then doing it all over again with several other web libraries/languages. This is not even design, it's a developer role who just happens to paint UI with code.
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