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Re: Figma AI

#11

Post by jjcm »

karaterobot wrote: post #3

Watching the keynote, the feature where it spits out a design based on a prompt seems like a gimmick. If it doesn't work with MY design system (as opposed to curated design systems like MUI or Bootstrap or whatever) then it's useless. It's also probably not ready to design complex applications, as opposed to brochure websites and apps that fit into very common templates. The AI-powered search features seem really pro…

PM here for Make Designs.

> If it doesn't work with MY design system (as opposed to curated design systems like MUI or Bootstrap or whatever) then it's useless

You hit the nail on the head. This our #1 focus for this team moving forward. If you noticed in the keynote, Dylan highlighted Chen Chen and the Google Material team, both of whom created generators for their design systems. They work, but they were hard to make as the tooling to create these isn't polished or ready yet. It's something we're actively thinking about and improving in order to make this useful for those with existing design systems.

Re: Figma AI

#12

Post by klabb3 »

Is it just me or did gen AI allow companies to cheat a lot more with their demos/showcases? I feel like there’s absolutely no way to tell if what’s shown is representative, cherry-picked or outright faked. I mean, it’s non-reproducible by nature, so it even gives plausible deniability to unscrupulous marketing departments.

I’d rather watch a YouTuber or streamer do a real project in a tool too see if and how it works in practice.

Re: Figma AI

#13

Post by johnfn »

iknowSFR wrote: post #4

Every AI tool being released by 3rd parties is being blacklisted by my company. The primary reasoning is around sharing data with tool itself. On the other hand, if my clients allow them, there’s a long review and approval process followed by continuous audits. Is anyone else running into this at their companies? I look at these tools and get excited but I’m continuously being blocked from using for work.

I don't get this. Obviously Figma already stored all your designs in their cloud. What's the additional problem with also getting AI suggestions back from Figma?

Re: Figma AI

#15

Post by tsunamifury »

jjcm wrote: post #11
karaterobot wrote: post #3

Watching the keynote, the feature where it spits out a design based on a prompt seems like a gimmick. If it doesn't work with MY design system (as opposed to curated design systems like MUI or Bootstrap or whatever) then it's useless. It's also probably not ready to design complex applications, as opposed to brochure websites and apps that fit into very common templates. The AI-powered search features seem really pro…

PM here for Make Designs. > If it doesn't work with MY design system (as opposed to curated design systems like MUI or Bootstrap or whatever) then it's useless You hit the nail on the head. This our #1 focus for this team moving forward. If you noticed in the keynote, Dylan highlighted Chen Chen and the Google Material team, both of whom created generators for their design systems. They work, but they were hard to ma…

The problem here isn’t that it uses your pattern library or not. The issue is it will spit out static designs that look right but aren’t actually based on either user goals or business goals of the product. It’s just a design that looks right. It’s missing the entire workflow design part and in fact covers over the need for it.

I see it leading a lot of less experienced product programs astray.

Re: Figma AI

#16

Post by illumanaughty »

johnfn wrote: post #13
iknowSFR wrote: post #4

Every AI tool being released by 3rd parties is being blacklisted by my company. The primary reasoning is around sharing data with tool itself. On the other hand, if my clients allow them, there’s a long review and approval process followed by continuous audits. Is anyone else running into this at their companies? I look at these tools and get excited but I’m continuously being blocked from using for work.

I don't get this. Obviously Figma already stored all your designs in their cloud. What's the additional problem with also getting AI suggestions back from Figma?

The problem is when other people are getting 'AI suggestions' based on your work. What if you don't own the copyright for the work you're producing (it's for a client)? What if you don't what AI being trained on your data?

Re: Figma AI

#17

Post by taylorlapeyre »

illumanaughty wrote: post #16
johnfn wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get this. Obviously Figma already stored all your designs in their cloud. What's the additional problem with also getting AI suggestions back from Figma?

The problem is when other people are getting 'AI suggestions' based on your work. What if you don't own the copyright for the work you're producing (it's for a client)? What if you don't what AI being trained on your data?

By default, Figma will not using organizations' data to train.

Re: Figma AI

#18

Post by jjcm »

klabb3 wrote: post #12

Is it just me or did gen AI allow companies to cheat a lot more with their demos/showcases? I feel like there’s absolutely no way to tell if what’s shown is representative, cherry-picked or outright faked. I mean, it’s non-reproducible by nature, so it even gives plausible deniability to unscrupulous marketing departments. I’d rather watch a YouTuber or streamer do a real project in a tool too see if and how it works…

PM here on the AI streams. These were all live demoes, not faked. Was not great for my anxiety given the non-deterministic nature.

We did talk about faking it, but Dylan was heavily opposed as he felt it wouldn't be genuine.

Re: Figma AI

#19

Post by devmor »

klabb3 wrote: post #12

Is it just me or did gen AI allow companies to cheat a lot more with their demos/showcases? I feel like there’s absolutely no way to tell if what’s shown is representative, cherry-picked or outright faked. I mean, it’s non-reproducible by nature, so it even gives plausible deniability to unscrupulous marketing departments. I’d rather watch a YouTuber or streamer do a real project in a tool too see if and how it works…

I don't think it's that big of a change. I've sat on both sides of many meetings where designers showcased mockups of functionality that didn't exist and wasn't even sanity-checked for a possibility to be engineered in the first place.

Re: Figma AI

#20

Post by sebzim4500 »

mvdtnz wrote: post #9
YetAnotherNick wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw this in a few of my friends' companies. I have asked to everyone how is storing data in Azure is better than using Azure ChatGPT API, and till now I haven't been able to get a good answer.

That's like asking why is it ok the use AWS to host my containers but it's not ok to leave company files in some other guy's S3 bucket.

No it isn't, the Azure ChatGPT API is operated by Azure, not OpenAI.
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