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Re: Figma AI

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Post by LauraMedia »

tsunamifury wrote: post #15
jjcm wrote: post #11

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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.

I think what would also be important is to select an existing frame and create additional views that fit the existing frame, that would definitely help creating a proper workflow

Re: Figma AI

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Post by kristopolous »

hbosch wrote: post #81
kristopolous wrote: post #55

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Design is different. It's become literally just whatever the boss likes. You can tell me about the math, theories and laws but look around you, nobody cares about those any more.

When UX designers started to look at their job more like science than art, the tech world became more boring, dull, and soulless.

When did that happen? It's gone from science to pure aesthetics. I wouldn't label it "art", it's merely vibes based.

Read design books from the 1980s versus today. They aren't the same planet.

Re: Figma AI

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Post by alucheni »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #22
illumanaughty wrote: post #16

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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?

Figma is explicit about this: > Two important highlights: First, all admins have control of whether their team’s content data is used for training. Second, participation in AI content training is not required to use Figma or Figma’s AI features. Learn more about our approach to training. Blanket bans on third party AI tools don't make any sense to me. As the parent commenter said, they already have all your data, so…

The language in the announcement looks tricky (albeit I didn't get into the legal document). It says NEW content won't be used for training. Also, it's going to be on for a moment. You have to go out of your way to turn it off. They could claim they copied your info in the hour or so before you got around to it.

Re: Figma AI

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Post by elawler24 »

Late to this conversation, but I'm a designer and very excited about these new AI features. They address tedious work that most designers don't want to deal with. It reminds me of why Figma won love from the design community in the first place - because they innovate on systems using emerging technology. They have always made designers more effective and relevant, rather than maintaining status quo simply because enterprise paying customers are stuck in their ways.
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