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I design with Claude more than Figma now
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Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now
#102The benefit here is designers learning to code. It was always weird to me that designers were shaping software without knowing how it was built. I'm a designer btw. However, designing in code is technology-first. One could argue that the purpose of design - to shape the artifacts for human purpose - is better done NOT starting with the strict rules of code. Pen and paper is still hard to beat, not for anything that l…
> without knowing how it was built It helps to understand the constraints of a medium, but you really don't need to know every level down to the electrons moving through the silicon.
Certainly, it helps the architect to know the constraints of concrete and bricks, but you don’t really have to know every level of down to the chemistry.
Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now
#103We are doing this on my team (I am the frontend engineer) and honestly I really miss the old way of doing things. Written specifications are being reduced in favor of these working prototypes, and now there’s this extra cognitive burden of reading the code and trying to determine what were the intended changes, and what’s the slop that needs to be tossed aside. We also have to figure out, should we take over this gen…
I am in a similar boat. Design and product use Claude to vibe design/code a feature/experience and rapidly prototype it, getting it in front of customers to get feedback with minimal engineering time. Amazing! However, you might be surprised to find out it hasn’t really helped us ship stuff faster overall. The reason, I believe, is we’ve lost something along the way. Thinking. A non-trivial amount of which is now out…
My experience has been there’s more “what did it make and does it work?” overhead. It’s like a junior developer throwing stuff over the wall and I’m responsible for seeing if it sticks.
Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
With a huge pile of salt > In July 2025, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) alleged that Jane Street used multiple entities for market manipulation and barred it from accessing the market.
Anyone with knowledge of Indian regulatory culture would not take this as dispositive.
Such as them not paying the required bribes
Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
> eventually the chickens come home to roost and you realise what a mess you made But a lot of times they don't. Devs building websites for small businesses used to be a thing, and it was almost universally a crap product. Practically every restaurant in my small town has been able to take control of their own website with AI, and it's a better experience for everyone. Rapid digitisation meant a lot of low-value work…
That era is already long gone. Those things have been built in Wix for over a decade. And since then, I haven't had any friends or family ask me for a simple site. The low-value work is already automated. Your comment is valid, but not for the reason you think. What you should be talking about is the grunt work done in our field to non-trivial applications. Adding a search box to a table, or add an extra field to a f…
> Low value work that until now had to be performed by high-value employees
The current trend is a proliferation of internal tooling. I've honestly found quite a bit of it useful. The rest is the usual should-have-been-a-Google-form nonsense.
Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I just wish it happened more to people who overpay for stuff like houses or Tesla stock That's pretty mean. I disagree with a lot of people on their investment choices and evangelism. That doesn't mean I want them to suffer for it.
It’s not that I want them to suffer, it’s that them being rewarded incentivizes suboptimal behavior and outcomes. Markets don’t work anymore. Which results in even more suffering.
> them being rewarded incentivizes suboptimal behavior and outcomes
What if they're choosing correctly? Like, I've been pretty consistently critical of crypto. Yet I'm glad my index funds have to buy Coinbase.
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#108I think Jane Street is an Anthropic investor, so take it fwiw.
As I understand Jane Street they have done great things for OCaml and they also do their own web framework (I guess that big money bin needs a lot of dashboards). I think the designer here takes a wrong approach and sort of falls into engineer envy where he wants to make prototypes as deep and realistic as possible. And that is not really the most important part of the design job. The most important thing is that the…
People are much better at saying what they don’t want rather than thinking about what they do. It’s more effective to throw everything in using LLMs, then using human judgment to sculpt away.
Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now
#109We are doing this on my team (I am the frontend engineer) and honestly I really miss the old way of doing things. Written specifications are being reduced in favor of these working prototypes, and now there’s this extra cognitive burden of reading the code and trying to determine what were the intended changes, and what’s the slop that needs to be tossed aside. We also have to figure out, should we take over this gen…
The code is not meant to be read anymore. That's the mistake.
Do you look at generated assembly that comes out of your compiler? You don't. So why are you looking at this code?
We have pushed up the abstraction layer.
Re: I design with Claude more than Figma now
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
As I understand Jane Street they have done great things for OCaml and they also do their own web framework (I guess that big money bin needs a lot of dashboards). I think the designer here takes a wrong approach and sort of falls into engineer envy where he wants to make prototypes as deep and realistic as possible. And that is not really the most important part of the design job. The most important thing is that the…
People are much better at saying what they don’t want rather than thinking about what they do. It’s more effective to throw everything in using LLMs, then using human judgment to sculpt away.
>> It’s more effective to throw everything in using LLMs, then using human judgment to sculpt away.
Not really. Maybe its effective from designer side but from other side that has to review all those ideas it is exhausting and counterproductive. Especially when it is in code.
You really don't need a real prototype for most things. Simple visual is more than enough to present an idea and explain etc. In fact, it is often much better as you can see all flows in canvas at once.
With interactive prototype to see all flows of a feature you have to go through each one, which again is very uneffective.