“Not sure about goverment requirements, but many apps I use nowadays are on the web, Figma, Canva, google docs, outlook and so on. There is not much need for a dedicated OS for most users.”
“Changing this setting to dark changes all icons to dark. It defeats the whole purpose. Earlier the figma icon was instantly recognizable now it just mixes no matter if you have chosen light or dark.”
“As far as my usage goes yes, it's not as good as figma but with some small workflow tweaks it's good enough. It's open source so you could add what you need easily enough.”
“Figma, for how much I have use it as a developer, is not that complex, and their AI integration kind of sucks, I would recommend only to have real engineers not just LLMs working on it, just to keep the scope realistic, LLMs will tell you what you want to hear”
“Figma is really sophisticated. A lot of folks focus on the basic drag-and-drop canvas details but miss how much engineering went into things like efficient memory management in large design files and things like that.”
“Figma is losing money and Adobe is shift towards an AI company. Agentic workflow is the new hot thing, if claude/codex/others subs can do the something similar, then you are fighting a losing battle.”
“I want to know if it is advisable to design printables like Rollup banners, outdoor flyers and billboard in Figma? If so how can I export my designs so they come out sharp when printed?”
“the annoying bit here is that “view access” in Figma isn’t the same thing as a machine-readable design handoff. Cursor can look at screenshots or exported assets, but it won’t reliably get the node tree, variables, component metadata, and exact styles just because a human can open the file.”
“More info from the author in this tweet: https://x.com/wieslawsoltes/status/2096360873270837346The output is quite astonishing and makes me wonder if Figma and pure software companies could be in trouble with GPT-6 Astra vibecoding full working clones of products in minutes.”
“Some app icons use the system's light and dark mode instead of that icon setting (or ignore the setting), but Figma is using that setting. Default is whatever the app maker wants it to be (some are light and some are dark) and Figma had always been dark.”
“GPT-6 Astra is designing in Figma now. It took one reference image and rebuilt it inside Figma from scratch, drawing the outline, then the light and volume, the face, the emblem, and finally the texture, until the file matched the original.”
“Get your Figma MCP setup. It's pretty easy and straightforward now with Figma Agents (provided you have a paid plan). Once done, there's so much you can do depending on the scale of what you want to achieve.”
“Next up, I asked Astra to please use the @figma MCP and create a full blown Figma representation and component library of my entire design system. It churned for 2 hours and did an amount of work that would have taken an unholy amount of days doing it the regular way.”
“I’ve been more on the other side of this where I’ve been thinking of Figma as the source of truth as far as the UI, but obviously it needs to be built on top of working code. Curious if any automations you may have stumbled upon that detects updates on the Figma side and reflects it on the Storybook component or vice versa.”
“u will need the paid version ng figma to do this though, an alternative is taking screenshots of each panel u made and having AI reference it nalang (it does this very well).”
“Storybook: we had the components in figma first then we created the stories. We use the latest instance of SB (v10.6) which came with some built in agent tooling for testing, a11y, etc.”
“Keep the Figma file human-readable: happy path first, then states, edge cases, empty/loading/error states, responsive behavior, and any component variants.”
“When we apply variables to properties Figma still shows us the fckn values instead of the variables... ...which kinda half-defeats the purpose of applying variables.”
“We are trying to solve a similar problem: we have a set of widgets and want to use AI to assemble pages from Figma using them, but it’s not quite clear how to establish the connection.”
“Well i design first in figma then slap claude with figma mcp, and voila from design to code easily done. Of course quite polish needed for a perfect webpage but it gets done anyway”
“I still do use bit of Figma, but as a sketchpad to send ideas to Claude and reduce hallucinations. Plus, it has our design system setup in Claude design.”
“As long as you have a design system, there's no need for figma anymore to add another layer. I would say design engineering has evolved with AI workflows with proper governance layers.”
“Mocked up the idea on Figm Design myself and then used Figma Make to string together the screens, this was much more effective for me at getting what I want. But for secondary screens and little things I finished them in Make.”
“The collaboration on Figma is still better in imo im freelancing for a startup and everyone’s Claude files are so disjointed Ive been building a source of truth on Figma just to course correct and form up a true MVP.”
“If you have full seat on Enterprise plan of the company … you can use Figma Code Connect …. Once you have linked the company Design System , you can do the pre figma UX work … now instead of figma prompt the flow to cursor …”
“I’m curious to know what your company/org spends on Figma annually. Ballpark numbers and simple seat counts are what I’m looking for. And I especially if you’re consuming tokens, what does that add to the cost.”
“it's also laughable when a designer doesn't know what they're doing in figma. if you don't know what you're doing, you're gonna get a shit output either way.”