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Figma's woes compound with Claude Design

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Re: Figma's woes compound with Claude Design

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Post by iamsaitam »

strimoza wrote: post #6

Used Claude Design to build the landing page for my side project (strimoza.com) over the weekend. Honestly impressive for a solo dev with no design background — got something shippable in a few hours. That said, I still ended up going back to tweak things manually. It's great for 80%, the last 20% still needs judgment. Not sure it kills Figma for teams, but for indie devs it's a game changer.

If i can be forthright, it looks like any other llm slop website design. The grain effect, the extra long FAQ, the reveal animations, the bad combination of font sizes and contrast ratios.. you're better off ripping off a website that has been actually designed by someone who understands what they are doing.

Re: Figma's woes compound with Claude Design

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Post by thinkindie »

rafram wrote: post #8
TMWNN wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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A very large portion of the non-design users are using it to reference/implement the designs created by their designer colleagues. They’re not going anywhere.

if you export the .fig file (even programatically) and you ingest in Claude Design you won't need to create users in Figma, right?

Re: Figma's woes compound with Claude Design

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Post by aurareturn »

stingraycharles wrote: post #2

> Anthropic themselves launched Claude Design which is a pretty direct competitor to Figma in many ways. While it's nowhere near functional and polished enough to replace Figma's core design product, I expect it will get significant traction outside of that The reaction that designers I know have given Claude Design couldn’t be different than how Claude Code was received by software devs. It’s simply useless for desi…

  People that think that Claude Design is going to replace Figma don’t really understand how both products relate.
The entire workflow between designer --> dev hand off is going to change.

I think the most effective teams will be working within Claude, not within Figma.

For individual creators, this will definitely replace Figma. I bought Sketch for use as an individual creator because I wanted to create mocks before coding them. There's no way I'd make the same purchase today.

Anyways, I'm sure Claude Design will incorporate some of Figma's features such as a company wide design language.

Re: Figma's woes compound with Claude Design

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Post by rafram »

thinkindie wrote: post #13
rafram wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A very large portion of the non-design users are using it to reference/implement the designs created by their designer colleagues. They’re not going anywhere.

if you export the .fig file (even programatically) and you ingest in Claude Design you won't need to create users in Figma, right?

Sure, if your design decisions are completely one-sided and transactional. In my experience, though, being able to comment and collaborate in Figma is important, as is being able to go find specific icons and components on my own.

Re: Figma's woes compound with Claude Design

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Post by thinkindie »

my 2 cents - Claude is not going after EVERY single SaaS (or maybe not yet), but after those products that are adopted by individuals that are keen at experimenting new tools (software engineers, designers etc etc).

At the same time I have the feeling Claude Design is more useful to get UI context closer to Code Claude then anything (and eventually some quick prototyping), but I might be wrong.

Either way, I've been trying to upload a 95MB .fig file and I get a generic error message without any information on the issue itself (is the file too big? not the right format? Tell me!)

Re: Figma's woes compound with Claude Design

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Post by sbarre »

kgwgk wrote: post #5
stingraycharles wrote: post #2

> Anthropic themselves launched Claude Design which is a pretty direct competitor to Figma in many ways. While it's nowhere near functional and polished enough to replace Figma's core design product, I expect it will get significant traction outside of that The reaction that designers I know have given Claude Design couldn’t be different than how Claude Code was received by software devs. It’s simply useless for desi…

> People that think that Claude Design is going to replace Figma don’t really understand how both products relate. Claude Design empowers non-designers to make decent designs. Maybe it will replace (a large share of) Figma users.

Yeah this is my take too.. I know a lot of front-end developers who pay for Figma and/or are not so invested in design that they need to do it all by hand.

They will gladly use something like this (many have already started experimenting with other similar products) to get them even 60% of the way there and then they can polish the rest in code...

Which is basically how they used Figma before. Visualize to close enough and then iterate to final in code.

If Claude Design can ingest your design system and previous examples and go further than templates and scaffolding, if it can help you brainstorm ideas and variations so you can - as the human in the loop - get to your final design faster..

Why wouldn't you do that?

Re: Figma's woes compound with Claude Design

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Post by sreekanth850 »

strimoza wrote: post #6

Used Claude Design to build the landing page for my side project (strimoza.com) over the weekend. Honestly impressive for a solo dev with no design background — got something shippable in a few hours. That said, I still ended up going back to tweak things manually. It's great for 80%, the last 20% still needs judgment. Not sure it kills Figma for teams, but for indie devs it's a game changer.

Did you checked it in mobile device?

Re: Figma's woes compound with Claude Design

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Post by NitpickLawyer »

stingraycharles wrote: post #2

> Anthropic themselves launched Claude Design which is a pretty direct competitor to Figma in many ways. While it's nowhere near functional and polished enough to replace Figma's core design product, I expect it will get significant traction outside of that The reaction that designers I know have given Claude Design couldn’t be different than how Claude Code was received by software devs. It’s simply useless for desi…

> couldn’t be different than how Claude Code was received by software devs. It’s simply useless for designers, their workflow is very different from software devs. You can’t “oh let Claude Design come up with a quick logo for this” in the same way that Claude Code was able to quickly solve small annoyances for devs.

Haha, that's exactly how cc was received initially. It's just autocomplete. It's useless. It can't even x. I tried to y and it gave me z. Over and over all over the internet this was the reaction. Then the bargaining began. Oh, it will maybe speed up some simple things. Like autocomplete on steroids. Maaaybe do some junior tasks once in a while. And so on...

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