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Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

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Re: Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

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Post by ffsm8 »

dataviz1000 wrote: post #9
noobplus wrote: post #5

The authenticated-page support is what caught my attention. Being able to grab an internal dashboard or admin UI and get editable Figma layers from it could save quite a bit of tedious recreation work.

That is a good way to get sued for breach of contract. Have you ever read the contract you had to click agree to in order to get access to the internal dashboard? Most likely you agreed to not do what this product does. It is also a very easy win for a company to just focus on the one stolen element or component in a lawsuit to knock competition out of the space and has happened multiple times.

Fwiw, you may be misunderstanding them.

In large corps you usually have separate teams for the UX design to the frontend devs and the people specifying the features.

In such a scenario the UX designer can utilize such a bookmarklet to get a quick copy of the existing dashboard into figma to then iterate on the UX and try out different approaches for that specified feature.

This scenario would not be in violation of any terms and it's unclear what noobplus was actually thinking of

Re: Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

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Post by bhasma »

This bookmarklet is not working in any of the pages other than figmimic page getting the following console error, tsp.bundle.js:1 Connecting to 'https://mcp.figma.com/mcp/html-to-design/capture.js' violates the following Content Security Policy directive

Re: Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

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Post by rvz »

I can hear the sound of the foghorn being trumpeted far away by scammers, impersonators and domain squatters that will take pleasure in cloning legitimate sites and actively scamming people and tricking them.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Re: Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

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Post by purkka »

rvz wrote: post #15

I can hear the sound of the foghorn being trumpeted far away by scammers, impersonators and domain squatters that will take pleasure in cloning legitimate sites and actively scamming people and tricking them. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

You can do this way easier by just copying the HTML/CSS and modifying what you need. Going through Figma is entirely unnecessary for making a scam site.

Re: Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

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Post by nkrisc »

rvz wrote: post #15

I can hear the sound of the foghorn being trumpeted far away by scammers, impersonators and domain squatters that will take pleasure in cloning legitimate sites and actively scamming people and tricking them. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

That’s been happening long, long before even Figma existed.

Re: Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

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Post by rvz »

nkrisc wrote: post #18
rvz wrote: post #15

I can hear the sound of the foghorn being trumpeted far away by scammers, impersonators and domain squatters that will take pleasure in cloning legitimate sites and actively scamming people and tricking them. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

That’s been happening long, long before even Figma existed.

Exactly. But now done in milliseconds with exact 1:1 pin point accuracy.
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