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..

Oh, I always thought he was a designer. Perhaps, that explains things. Figma changed the perception of design from what happens in the real world to what happens in a design tool.

Granted that was sometime ago.. Now that there is going to be more (warranted) criticism hopefully there is a more reasonable response to peoples' concerns