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I've found even using figma as just a visualisation layer for the agent's outputs so valuable, even if I still ask the agent to make changes.
But if you go all the way and do a bit of a setup once and ask Claude To recreate all the design tokens inside of Figma you get that direct manipulation that can make certain changes 10x faster.
Models are getting so good at recreating and documenting UI in Figma and keeping it in sync, that I am reconsidering the whole working directly in code conversations
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Models are getting so good at recreating and documenting UI in Figma and keeping it in sync, that I am reconsidering the whole working directly in code conversations
A brutal and fast way of how my design iterations are these days in Unframed
1. claude explodes the ui in all states as a user flow on a canvas
2. I annotate and give feedback
3. Use built in agents to prototype in html based on these feedbacks
4. narrow the prototype and send back to claude to implement in the repo
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It was foreseeable that comapnies would shift towards having a designer OR pm, not anymore both and maybe add invest rather into a design or product engineer instead.
For designers this means craft and taste alone isn't sufficient as companies expect you to fully own the product. Knowledge and understanding of the business therefore become crucial to be competitive in the market.
Since visual/interaction design is what catches the eye, it's important to put the best work forward, as a scroll-stopper, but it has to be followed by substance.
Show that you understand business problems, that you know how to talk to customers, find opportunities and can bring a feature to life, measure outcomes and have real impact
Spoke to a couple of people about @lennysan’s take on the job market and where it leaves designers and user researchers. My 2 cents:
• A lot of design responsibility seems to have shifted to PMs. Talking to users, finding problems, deciding what to build. That’s increasingly perceived as PM scope. For designers, losing ownership of that work is bad news.
• A lot of the industry sees designers as interaction and visual designers. I think X contributes to that. Founders see cool interactions getting far more reach than a strategy case study. It shapes what they percieve as good design.
• I think the slowdown is temporary, but I don’t expect the roles to return unchanged. PM and design already overlap, and there’s plenty of friction over who owns what. I can see them merging further into Product Builder, Product Ninja, or whatever title we come up with next.
• From the conversations I’ve had, the US is slowed down and Europe is completely frozen. Getting into the “cool” companies feels more like a lottery. Hoping to see more VC investment in Europe down the line, so we can have more cool companies as well.
• What can you do as a designer? Build cool stuff and share it publicly. Give people a reason to reach out to you. I wouldn’t rely on cold applications alone.
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I've always been obsessed with whiteboarding tools and I've always wanted to collaborate with my agents on a canvas.
That's why I built Unframed, where I can use the MCP to draw a full workflow of my production app and give feedback via annotations.
Or I can create HTML prototypes directly on the canvas and send those back to my agent to implement
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I love using agents to build prototypes to explore directions but this is true, the risk is not being able to see and think and explore beyond the outputs agents produce
i'm finding it increasingly important to not ask LLM-s for copy / visual mocks because the basic patterns and cliches will poison my brain and make it harder to design / write beyond the average
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Matteo Aliano retweeted
one brand, 2240 ways to explore it
we gave ai our brand guidelines and it’s been exploring 24/7. animations, posters, clothes, even entire spaces
we keep steering it toward what we like, and it keeps going
everything is public if you want to explore too
"Hey Claude, do a full end to end test in the browser, take screenshots and add them on figma. Make sure you're synthesising all ui states we introduced in the PR.
Once we have the full flow documented I'll leave comments and annotations on the file that I want you to iterate on."
Even more powerful if you add:
"Recreate component X on Figma with all it's states and variables following exactly how it is on code. I want to manually edit the component for you to pick up the changes and implement them from my design"
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Opposite use case
Start in Claude, detail by hand, automatic sync in production or get Claude to iterate based on the updates.
Leverage where each tool is best at. Claude can create full design systems or pages in minutes. Fine tuning design details is where promptings stops being viable.
This gives you the best of both worlds
It's actually shocking how good Figma's MCP is and how virtually no one is talking about it.
Like bro, you can design literally anything you can dream up in Figma and have Claude build it pixel-perfect in under 5 minutes.
Designers are so caught up in playing developer that they're overlooking the very thing they've spent their entire careers wishing was possible.
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Matteo Aliano retweeted
It's actually shocking how good Figma's MCP is and how virtually no one is talking about it.
Like bro, you can design literally anything you can dream up in Figma and have Claude build it pixel-perfect in under 5 minutes.
Designers are so caught up in playing developer that they're overlooking the very thing they've spent their entire careers wishing was possible.
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Experimenting with a fork of T3 Code called "Pivot"
One persistent agent per project that manages all threads for you. It spawns teammates with their own worktrees and previews and orchestrates and assignes work to new or existing threads.
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I wish they made a @bot only subscription with higher usage, I want to use bots for literally anything
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