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
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..
Part of why I say this is the ideal version of how designers and other creatives would demonstrate value is at odds with how capitalistic society works and I genuinely don't know how we can "fix" that