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Re: Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents

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Post by dougfulop »

Asciilotle wrote: post #21

Nice use case! I built something along similar lines.. an ASCII wireframe generator to jump straight from idea to code with zero friction: https://bareminimum.design/ . Also handy for quick UI critiques. Curious what you think.

Wish there were examples without a signup

Re: Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents

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Post by travisd »

At $DAYJOBSTARTUP, we do hackathons twice a year. At the most recent one, an engineer sat down with a designer and set him up with Cursor. The designer looked like a kind in a candy shop, he was so excited to be able to rapidly prototype with natural language and not be clicking in Figma for hours.

A month later, he comes back to the engineering team with a 10k line "index.html" file asking "How do I hand this off?" (he was definitely smart enough to know that just passing that file to us was not gonna fly). We decided to copy the designs into Figma for the handoff, both because that was the existing way we did design/engineering handoffs and also because creating high fidelity designs (e.g., "this color from our design system" and "this standard spacing value") isn't in Cursor's wheelhouse.

We're probably going to spend more time working on a better setup for him. At the very least he should be working against our codebase and components and colors and design tokens. But I'm very curious to see where it goes from here.

Re: Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents

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Post by dannote »

dannote wrote: post #27
VladVladikoff wrote: post #2

Can it make a SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle?

Will add vector path manipulation soon!

Just shipped in 0.6.0! New path commands:

   # Read path data
   figma-use path get 

   # Set new path
   figma-use path set  "M10,10 L90,50 L10,90 Z"

   # Transform existing paths
   figma-use path move  --dx 100 --dy 50
   figma-use path scale  --factor 2
   figma-use path flip  --axis x
SKILL.md updated too

Re: Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents

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Post by akhil08agrawal »

travisd wrote: post #28

At $DAYJOBSTARTUP, we do hackathons twice a year. At the most recent one, an engineer sat down with a designer and set him up with Cursor. The designer looked like a kind in a candy shop, he was so excited to be able to rapidly prototype with natural language and not be clicking in Figma for hours. A month later, he comes back to the engineering team with a 10k line "index.html" file asking "How do I hand this off?"…

Same here. Really curious on where this leads. Firstly, I feel that the speed and complexity increase that comes with agents can only be dealt with people adept both in the domain and in general AI tools.

Basically, to really leverage this I think just knowing Figma perfectly previously or being a noobie and knowing Claude Code perfectly isn't gonna cut it.

Building things is fast, but building something that is gonna stick is gonna be more difficult now you have so many options.

The game has changed.

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