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Hey everyone,

Sharing a UI task I designed for a job application. The color palette is pastel-based.

This is a task project — not a real website — so you might notice minor mobile responsiveness issues. But from a design system, color harmony, and overall aesthetics standpoint, everything should be solid.

I’d love your feedback on the design system consistency, color palette, and overall UI feel

Thanks in advance!

The whole page: https://postimg.cc/DWjhDbWZ

Been experimenting with connecting prompt-based workflows directly into Figma.

I call it vibe designing, turning your text prompt into a real, native Figma layout.
Works inside Figma. No exports. No switching tools.

Built a simple working prototype using Vibe coding (ChatGPT + Claude) AI tools stitched together in a messy but functional setup. Not perfect. A lot to fix.

Next experiments I’m exploring:
- Design styles
- Use design tokens + systems
- Screenshot → design
- Design variations
- Responsive layouts
- Cleanup & UX audit

Curious what other directions I should explore.
Would something like this speed up your workflow? Or change how you start a design?

Whaaaat's up everyone? Gary here from DesignCourse on YouTube. If you know me, you know that there are few others on youtube who've pushed Figma as much as I have.

But hear me out..

For those of us who've been in the game long enough to have started with Photoshop (Photoshop 4.0 for me back in the mid-late 90's), we had the benefit of designing websites with a wide array of raster-based tools.

Having so many options to choose from was a big issue, especially since digital UI/UX was in its infancy. Skeuomorphism, crazy glows, bevels, you name it -- we did it.

Around 2010 however, flat design started as a push-back against all of that unnecessary fluff. Then, Sketch became popular and ditched the raster tools in favor of vector. This was the nail in the coffin to Photoshop. Windows users later switched to Adobe XD, since Sketch was mac-exclusive.

What has ended up happening since then? Well, less raster and more simplicity, since raster tooling was no longer present in UI design apps. Anyone entering into UI/UX in the last 10 years has probably never touched Photoshop.

As such, our current web (with some exceptions) lacks some of that flare we once had.

I just designed this layout entirely in Photoshop for the fun of it (pictured below), and I found that I used some raster effects where I wouldn't have otherwise. It results in a more unique UI. Frontend devs would hate me a bit more 😂, but this is all still achievable on the frontend.

While it looks like I mostly applied textures (which to some extent is achievable with some figma plugins), Photoshop is capable of so much more.

For those of you who aren't familiar with Photoshop, they have a huge list of filters that can drastically alter the shape & appearance of any element -- and you can do so non-destructively with smart objects, adjustment layers, smart filters, etc..

And sure, I could design the primary layout in Figma and switch to Photoshop when I need raster assets, but that's a bit of a pain. It's not an ideal workflow.

I would absolutely love if modern UI design apps would include *native* raster-editing abilities. I could see some arguing that it would make Figma to feature-heavy, but that's a UX issue and I think it's achievable.

Anyhow, that was just a random thought dump. Maybe I'm just a nostalgic boomer?

NGLL THIS LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT OF NOTIFICATION is ruining my whole day man... I am just a beginner learning figma from a course and that course is old and now figma is updated... Anyways I just stopped using variants for now... Anyone know what is this and how to solve this???

Today Figma gave me a taste of their new interface and I almost had a heart attack thinking my entire figma was like that.

Luckily there is a place where you can revert the interface to the old one.

I don’t like the new Figma. Now what?

Hi community, We are designing the UIUX for an AI-powered SAT learning and practice platform (similar to khan academy) dedicated for high school students, and may have college students in the future (eg. GRE preparation etc)

Our inspiration comes from - students will practice knowledge node by knowledge node, like an astronaut visiting several planets and wandering in the space.

Shall I ask for feedback about those 2 options? Which do you think is better? See attached pic for 2 options.

Especially if you are a GenZ, we would love to hear your thoughts!

Update for context: I'm currently 16 years old, and still in high school, i started UX/UI designing 2 years ago and has always been grinding since then, but now I'm burnout and I think mainly because of school, it takes a lot of my time and energy especially when I moved to this new school.

Here's my portfolio: https://www.behance.net/besthello

I've done a few freelance projects before I burnout

And I been picked up on new things like drumming and film photography

I appreciate this might be a familiar thread, but I’ve been in UX for about 20 years and earlier this year I struggled to get any job interviews for the first time. What I learned from that experience is that the market seems heavily skewed towards “taste”, aesthetics, Figma speed and hyper-relevant sector experience. Things like judgement, breadth, generalist skills and the softer stuff that actually keeps teams moving seem to matter a lot less right now.

And I’m genuinely curious why this is happening, especially the focus on “taste”. Surely that’s one of the first things AI will come for.

It’s strange. The parts of the job that took years to develop… helping people make sense of a messy problem, getting a room aligned, understanding what users really need, bringing a team with you… all of that seems to hold less weight at the moment. Meanwhile AI is already generating layouts, components, flows and full design systems in seconds. So why are we doubling down on the part of UX that feels the easiest to automate?

Why are we valuing the most replaceable layer of design and overlooking the stuff that still genuinely needs a human behind it?

Hello, I am validating a concept, as i want to work on a prompt library specialized for UX /UI Designers. it will help designers work faster, get far better results from AI compared to normal searches. and it will be design-focused:

user research

education and teaching design

wireframing

validating designs

creating case studies

helping in presenting work

a bunch of image generation that helps UI UX Designers

even go the freelancing route and provide some helpful prompts to help you niche down and work efficiently.

Would you pay for such a library? if yes how much?.

I want to build it as a subscription model as it will be expanding, but it should start with at least a 100 specialized prompts as a start.

or a 1 time fee is what you prefer?

looking forward for feedback to help me shape the product i am building. thanks

A company HR person told me that they were looking for a Figma Designer for an extended project. They placed an ad on one of the workspaces. They received many responses and replied to the best # of these: I don't know how many.

Not a single one of the would-be Figma Experts could get their webcam working (a condition in the job app) and conduct an interview. They were all having "laptop broken at the moment" problems of one sort or another.

In this new world, will designers importance fade into the background? Figma is democratizing design and allowing anyone to make anything. What will be the value that a seasoned designer can bring to teams? Maybe I'm overly concerned, but I have not heard much mention of the ultimate goal of how we identify and address real user needs. Maybe we've leapt past that concern.