If you design for a living—especially if you’re earlier in your career—you should not be happy about any of these AI features in Figma
→ Generating anything from scratch? Bad → Augmenting existing work or content? Actually maybe good It’s a fine line and no one has gotten it right yet because it requires restraint
I missed this part of the keynote but based on a screenshot from an article, the "Make designs" prompt (?) makes me itchy.. So much of being a designer is understanding why something works and why it doesn't (c)
Figma has been part of the problem of reducing what design actually is to just being able to put some fancy UI together. We designers are responsible for the diminishing perception of our value.
The CEO of Figma started out as more of an engineer than a designer, right? I feel like that explains some things lol I don't think we're 100% responsible but I agree that we get in our own way..
Ah all good. I didn’t know that about the Thiel fellow program. Honestly all I know is he’s a POS. Makes sense now why you’d include that.
I'll add that the only reason I brought up his background is a "design founder" would theoretically have a different approach.. But then again, maybe not, because we do love to get in our own way when it comes to proving our "worth" lol
I've been revisiting this article lately and this quote seems forever relevant: "You can’t prove your value to someone whose business model relies on not seeing it."
Right now the stuff generated from scratch is* too basic and/or generic to be of much use. *Probably, based off Framer’s AI start from scratch generative features.