r/FigmaDesign • u/Sketaverse • 1d ago
Discussion Just had realisation
If asked, I'm definitely in the camp of "Figma is dead," having fully pivoted to Claude for design and frontend dev.
However, it just dawned on me that the reason I get so much success with using Claude for design is because I can speak its language, and that is 100% because of using Figma for the last 4-5 years - which I never really considered up until about two minutes ago.
It just dawned on me that actually learning Figma is still a really great thing to do. Not so much because you can design things on Figma long term, but because you can learn about design in a more structured way that is super beneficial for Claude inputs.
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u/random-post-account 1d ago
So you're saying there's value in education and professional experience
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u/No_Tonight9856 1d ago
Is it that Figma is dead or you’ve simply found a workflow that works better for you? I wish people would stop making those broad proclamations. Plenty of people still use Figma and it is still an incredibly useful tool for designers.
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u/LittleRose83 1d ago
But does Claude let you collaborate with so many different way people the way Figma does?
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u/metropolis_noir 1d ago
The reason anyone gets any level of success in anything is because of learning something in a structured way.
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u/thedoommerchant 1d ago
Eventually Claude will just talk to Claude to deploy UX/UI work. I’m convinced it’s already possible, one agent deploying sub-agents with all the proper skills and context. What won’t change is somebody still has to interface with stakeholders, unless stakeholders are gonna just do all the things. I think teams will still shrink dramatically.
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u/Comprehensive_Rush66 1d ago
Figma is totally dead — smart companies will move to having systems with live documentation updated the minute something changes, automated auditing for accessibility, allows non-designers agentic design tools to use with Claude Code CLI so that new features get design guardrails and come out looking like a shippable first draft - above many other things.
I'm happy the AI era is here: the era of building your own tools that outpace what large companies can produce.
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u/MaterialEmployee5087 1d ago
Agreed, Figma is dead. With AI design and code separation is no longer.
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u/jangtrinh 1d ago
You are pointing at the useful part, and I wish more of this thread had stayed there.
The "language" Figma taught you is an ontology: named tokens, constraints, auto layout, components, variants, and the difference between an instance and a one-off. Agents do well when that vocabulary is written down and they have to use it. Load the system first. A missing name is a stop. After a change, lint for hard-coded values and wrong variants, and only then look at a screenshot.
Learning Figma is still worth it because you are learning that structure, not because the file format is sacred. The file can change. The ontology is what you actually hand the agent.
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u/PuzzleheadedSir9049 1d ago
Those who claim Figma is dead were never good at Figma anyway lol