V spicy take

Yep. Curious what people have to say about it

I actually think of Figma as a very constrained design tool and personally don't see too many instances of designs that can't be easily implemented. Photoshop is/was a different story.

One of my frontend colleagues told me he even uses Figma himself for hobby projects before coding. He especially likes auto layout because of how similar it is to the way he works.

Yeah like most things there's more nuance to real world workflows and you should just use whatever tool is most effective for your stage of the project imo. Classic annoying DHH bait post though lol.

fuck everything I'm going back to coding with pen and paper

Flashback to a Python exam I once had 😵‍💫

"All our web designers work directly with the native materials of HTML, CSS, and usually even a fair bit of JavaScript and Ruby. The design process and its iterations flow through updates to the real code that runs the real app, and, as quickly as possible, against real data"

Using Figma or designing in code?

I agree with a lot of this. Figma is great. But I’ve found it to be way quicker to code a site than build out components and prototypes 🤷‍♂️ like everything, depends on the site/product, depends on the team.

It’s how I work. But it isn’t as binary as the article makes out, I do a lot of back and forth depending on what design problem I need to solve. That all said you shouldn’t gate keep tooling. Use what works for the team and deliver together.

Massive agree.