“The real designers still use Figma. Claude is a wonderful tool for development but it’s laughable for design when someone doesn’t know what they are doing.”
“I've found manual quick work in Figma to astro/css as soon as possible, even with rough design work, to be the premier workflow. Getting something live and iterating off it in prompt is faster and employs codified rules natively so it tends to be a purely creative output that's hard to mimic doing a full local design first.”
“when you refer to the following are you implying the steps it goes through: figma-design-system-migration, design-system-semantic-state-check, and design-system-spec-writer?”
“It's less about how you do it but more so about giving the agent a signal on what's considered done. This should be granularly enforced because before I'd let an agent implement a figma I'd first define how I would even enforce the rules inside the repository.”
“I have given Claude links to Figma frames and it’s done a decent job, though I did get it to do a plan first and gave it some quite specific notes on how I wanted certain parts to be built.”
“**Clean up naming before anyone else touches the file.** figma-layer-naming renames loose component instances that are still sitting on their default name (nine things all called "Menu") into a searchable Component / Feature / State convention.”
“If we talking about front end, you have codex plugin figma, dump your initial design to codex and app shot all the resources file, explain the context of your project, have codex create figma files, then create live site based on those design and files and context, then mark all the changes you need, then codex package everything and you dump it to developer”
“I can't I use it at work but mind that if you have a figma design system it can work perfectly also use skill creator skill in Claude to do it for you and it took like a month from creating to test it properly.”
“However, things become much more problematic when the task requires accurately reproducing an existing design — for example, implementing a Figma design with high visual fidelity. In that kind of work, I’ve encountered a huge number of issues.”
“I don't let codex touch my initial designs, they go through ChatGPT on Pro Reasoning, with Deep Thinking enabled, using the Figma plugin, Github plugin etc. it takes a while but it's worth it.”
“Junior UI/UX designer here. Forced myself to master Auto-Layout 5.0 and tokens by building this 3-page Specialty Coffee UI Kit. Figma link in the comments for anyone who wants to copy it!”
“AI is indeed terrible at UX/UI in the same way that Figma is terrible at UX/UI — it’s a tool that needs direction. You still have to do the UX and UI work, it’s just a bit more linear and powerful in what the output is”
“Yes, let’s have another conversation about this complex journey and wether the user can enter all the information in inputs and try to mimic it in a fucking Figma prototype that takes forever to make instead of just making the goddam prototype with Claude in shy of a day and have our fucking answers tomorrow”
“Use MCP to connect to Figma, then build out one screen as a template. Lock in spacing, colors, type styles, etc., using your design system, then use that as your base for everything you design moving forward.”
“I created a website in figma for my school, and the issue is i didn’t check the size or the ratio before hand and finished the website now the problem is whenever i open it on desktop its really zoomed in and in phone when i use it its initially zoomed in but then when you zoom out its normal”
“I’ve had some issues with prototypes too, mainly that sometimes none of the interactions carry over to new files even though all files are using the same component library. It was making me so stressed, nothing would work.”
“You can now publish shaders and generative plugins built with Figma agent to the community. Something delightful or something that fixes a small annoyance.”
“Because Figma is probably going to be your forever-place from here on, I would probably do it correctly and rebuild everything starting from your smallest level of tokens, components and symbols.”
“i'm struggling a bit with Figma when i want to implement the designs, i know few things but in general i'm still behind, is there any video explaining the implementation of Figma design in Compose, like cover everything: design system, typograpgy, colors, sizes, paddings, shadows, and also custom components with their own properties.”
“If you feel comfortable you can build your own storybook documentation pages, create your own internal documentation site/app leveraging claude by calling storybook/figma or you can go good old zeroheight route.”
“We use Token Studio and i find it very clumsy, in particular no ability manage variants, or other figma specific component features, like visibility, states, etc...”