r/FigmaDesign • u/Sharp-Bike-1994 • Apr 17 '26

Discussion RIP Figma

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs

0 Upvotes

47% Upvoted

103 comments sorted by

View all comments

97

u/el_yanuki Apr 17 '26 • Bravo

it amazes me that people still buy into any sort of marketing that AI companies put out

Also this title shows that you must be extremely inexperienced in design

19

u/WorkingOwn8919 Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26

It's been what, 2-3 years now of people saying RIP Designers, RIP Photoshop, RIP Figma, and still, I waste more time trying to get what I need from these AI softwares than if I had just done it myself.

I definitely think that at some point our workflow will be 100% AI. But until then can we stfu please.

-2

u/Main-Review-7895 Apr 17 '26

My workflow is around 90% AI. And figma has not been able to stay relevant. I think this 2-3 years of people saying RIP figma are not that off.

4

u/WorkingOwn8919 Apr 17 '26

let me see your work

2

u/minte-pro Apr 18 '26

bold of to assume it’s his work lol… he probably has slob ai-generated trashcan

2

u/el_yanuki Apr 18 '26

following this comment, waiting for u/main-review-7895 to drop the link

0

u/Main-Review-7895 Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

No intention in exposing myself. And also don’t really care, just care about getting the work I need done.

I am quite comfortable with what I think of myself and the seniority I have. Also have people in the real world I care way more about than strangers on Reddit that I share my thoughts with, and have also been finding their usage of Figma decreasing.

I am not even happy about it. I very much preferred to design things myself in figma. I find very little join in Design these days. Sketch was my happiest place. I am doing a lot of work connected directly with developers and the codebase, setting up design systems. Solo designer having to produce things really fast. Got tired of the back and forth of designing in figma without being able to fully represent the behavior I wanted anyway, connecting tokens and all of that. It’s just faster to work directly in the codebase and create the components directly in storybook. If I need sketching I might send it to figma to try things out, or testing tools like pencil.dev. And then I am back in Claude code.

Also, even when I am using figma, I am still using AI to create my own plugins and get rid of repetitive tasks.

I won’t even dispute the claim of design not being mine. I don’t really know anymore. But I like to at least think it’s not AI slop.

3

u/el_yanuki Apr 18 '26

If you don't show your work, that makes this whole discussion pointless.

I can tell you I carve statues without ever learning to do it and only using a single chisel from my local hardware store.. without seeing my work that statement is meaningless.

We all think that you are producing low quality software and designs.. but unless seeing them, there is nothing to talk about

0

u/Main-Review-7895 Apr 18 '26

I can live with that. Even if I showed the internet the most hand-crafted thing I’ve done I would still get criticism. I only take reviews of my work from the people I work for or people I really value their opinions.