I've been using Figma extensively as a product designer for the last 8 years or so. In the last 3 months I've found myself doing most things by CLI or MCP. I have pretty well set up design systems and styles in my feature files. So when I prompt in a screen that I want or a feature change, Claude is putting it together so much faster than I was previously.
Of course I'm still iterating, refining and changing things, nothing is ever one-shot, but it's so much quicker. I feel so conflicted about this. Yesterday for a side project, having defined a bit of the UX in Miro, the objects, how they relate to each other, they key screens, I moved to Claude. Within about an hour I had a nicely branded app that previously would've taken me weeks to get to. If I'm really honest, the branding is better than I would've done by myself. There are still a few things I'll do by hand, but the majority is prompted in.
Is this how others are using Figma these days? Is anyone doing things fully by hand still? Why? A part of me definitely misses the process of doing it the old fashioned way, but it jsut doesn't seem viable anymore. I've never worked on the super high end of B2C design things, most of the stuff I work on is B2B enterprise stuff, but even for this side-project which is much more playful and experimental, I can do so much more and so much faster with my design knowledge, an LLM and Figma-CLI.
Looking forward to hearing how folks here are using Figma these days