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I ran a design team, and many really struggled with Sketch -> Figma transition, and took a long time. I welcome many of the new features. It's great for designers who are more technically oriented, though enterable input fields would be nice. I do wonder how non-technical designers are going to feel. The learning curve is definitely going higher. I'm worried about the rather pricey per / seat cost. There are far more…
Hey all! Emil here from the Figma team that brought you Dev Mode and Figma for VS Code today! Really interested to hear what you think and also here to answer your questions. We are super excited to invest more into developers in the future, today is just the start of that!
Does figma have an external bug tracker. While developing a figma plugin I ran into a CSP issue for loading UI web workers as blobs. Not sure if I should go through standard figma support channels or is there a dedicated channel for plugin developers.
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What's worse is treating engineers like "just implement the mockup eyeroll " but then the logic of the mockup makes no sense with real data or product. I'd rather have a napkin sketch that we can work on together vs throwing pictures over the wall. As impressive as it is, I feel like Figma makes this situation worse. It's like "see we've figured it all out devs, look how nice this looks. No discussion needed"
I feel like that might be an organizational problem. At my company the designers will present their figma designs to engineering and we'll have a meeting to go through them and bring up concerns with exactly those sorts of issues e.g. "This list may actually have hundreds of entries in practice, are bullet points still right?". Then we iterate.
Hey all! Emil here from the Figma team that brought you Dev Mode and Figma for VS Code today! Really interested to hear what you think and also here to answer your questions. We are super excited to invest more into developers in the future, today is just the start of that!
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What's worse is treating engineers like "just implement the mockup eyeroll " but then the logic of the mockup makes no sense with real data or product. I'd rather have a napkin sketch that we can work on together vs throwing pictures over the wall. As impressive as it is, I feel like Figma makes this situation worse. It's like "see we've figured it all out devs, look how nice this looks. No discussion needed"
My favorite is when the designer doesn’t have a good idea of what’s feasible to implement on the target platform and just designs whatever, leading to a boatload wasted time. Don’t get me wrong, I have a ton of respect for good designers, but the best designers are those with a slight technical lean who are willing to design around e.g. built in customization on UIKit widgets instead of full wheel reinvention everywh…
I ran a design team, and many really struggled with Sketch -> Figma transition, and took a long time. I welcome many of the new features. It's great for designers who are more technically oriented, though enterable input fields would be nice. I do wonder how non-technical designers are going to feel. The learning curve is definitely going higher. I'm worried about the rather pricey per / seat cost. There are far more…
How do you differentiate between a developer and an engineer?
Send the ENG a SYN packet, and if they ACK They are an engineer... if they /dev/null your packet, its a DEV.
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Yup. This is far from new. Used to be getting a zip file full of low quality photoshop exports and you would have better luck pulling teeth out of a cranky tiger(1) than getting proper assets (or the raw files) out of the art team. My favorite was the PowerPoint presentation. Didn’t happen to me but I’ve heard about it. 1: Somewhat redundant. Any tiger you try to get teeth out is likely to be cranky before you finish…
I like the PPT - it is more like a wireframe! Yes, similar to the photoshop days. I forgot all about those. Has been almost 10yr since I had that happen! PPT doesn't bother me because it's very "what we need" not "how we need it" so I don't have to worry about the specifics and instead can focus on (and ask questions about) the intent of the feature.
At least they didn't use document links with absolute paths. Macs don't have have a C:\Documents and Settings\Clueless\ folder. Encountered that a few times in my career.
Hey all! Emil here from the Figma team that brought you Dev Mode and Figma for VS Code today! Really interested to hear what you think and also here to answer your questions. We are super excited to invest more into developers in the future, today is just the start of that!
Is there some way to export Figma's local variables to a CSS custom properties?
If you're looking for something more custom, you can take advantage of our new Variables Plugin API beta (https://www.figma.com/plugin-docs/working-with-variables) and export them with what you need!
Is there like a TLDR or something? This is an enormous amount of text.