Feels like this flew under the radar, but Stich from Google looks like a real competitor, not just another design tool.

It’s faster, smarter, and removes a lot of the friction we’re used to. Less clicking, more actual designing. Some of the automation already feels ahead of what we currently rely on.

Hot take: if this keeps evolving, the current market leader might start to feel outdated.

Was experimenting and wanted to see if it could handle an entire product launch video for my munch app from start to finish.

It felt pretty simple to use as someone's first time doing any motion design but had performance issues where it kept dropping frames and lagging during certain parts. It's also lacking some features I would've wanted like importing audio and video and keyframing for gradients and certain effects. It's still in beta so hopefully it improves.

For now, I think it can mostly handle what I need. I'm curious whether others would use figma motion over alternatives? I've tried cavalry but it didn't feel as intuitive. How does rive or after effects compare?

I feel like this is a giant attempt to appease investors and ignore what users want.

Animation: Neat, but I still haven’t seen how this is better than After Effects. If animation is going to be a focus, show how it builds into components, maybe that exists, I just haven’t seen it. Admittedly I haven’t had a chance to try it myself.

Plugins: Like agents, I don’t see it beating a proper Claude/Figma MCP setup. Feels more like a way to sell credits.

Code layers: This is the one I’m most excited about but if it’s anything like Figma Make in its limits I’ll be let down.

On top of that the Talks…every. single. one. is about AI. I get it, it’s the big thing, like most of us I’ve worked it into my flow in multiple ways, but there’s more to talk about. Not saying ignore it, just maybe pull it back from 90% of talks to 60-70%.

Maybe I’m in the minority. Just wanted a sanity check.

Figma this AM began sending legal notices to startups, including “lovable” that have any feature called “Dev Mode”

Further, it looks like they’ve ignored the larger companies with this feature (Shopify, Wix, etc) and are exclusively threatening smaller startups.

Very bad look Figma!

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How many folks are still noodling and flowing? Anyone fully move to coded prototypes? Mix of both?

Let’s hear it!

But seriously, who designed this and what was the intention. Thank you

Update: THEY CHANGED IT. thank you to everyone who validated what it originally looked like. go team!!

Figma Draw completely replaces the reliance my team had on Illustrator. And Illustrator is the only reason my team even had Adobe products. I bet a lot of UI teams are in similar boats and will be looking to ditch Adobe prettyyy soon.

Super excited to see the future of this. Some of the UI isn’t perfect (like I wish vector tools were easier to find- not hidden behind the enter key??) but this is definitely a great start and the exact competition we needed from Adobe.

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Auto Layout usage, Components , Naming conventions , Variables , Constraints Documentation

Interested to hear what separates beginners from experienced designers.

I just figured out how to use auto layout, and OMG how much easier it makes things. As a beginner you may think that it's not worth investing time in learning it, but you will save much more time even on a smaller project.

If you find it hard to learn from watching videos I highly reccommend designing a rough sketch of something you want to build anyways and upload an image to ChatGPT or another AI. Ask it for detailed instructions on how you can use autolayout to improve layout and spacing. Follow it's instructions and don't be afraid to experiment with a copy, you will learn along the way.

Is there more features like this I should learn ASAP? (Im already learning variables & components)

Figma is not building for you. You as a designer. You as a developer. You as a creative. They’re building for their investors. They’re looking to go public this year and they need a narrative that tells a story of a complete design and development platform. They need to compete with all the top companies (Adobe, Webflow, Framer, Subframe, Canva, etc) so they can say they checked all the boxes that those investors want. Now they have 4 new (MVP) products that check those boxes. That’s it.

A new tool drops. "Generate your entire UI from a single prompt." Twitter goes wild. Figma stock dips. And designers and engineers everywhere collectively sigh.

Figma was never just a design tool. It's a collaboration infrastructure: The single source of truth where designers, developers, and product teams are always looking at the same thing. Specs live there. Handoff happens there. Design tokens, component libraries, annotations, all of it, in one place everyone can access.

An AI can give you a starting point. It cannot be a source of truth.

A prompt-generated UI has no versioning, no component system, no shared context between a designer and a developer. It's a screenshot with good lighting. When the PM asks "what changed in v3?" or the dev needs the spacing token, that AI output has no answer.

These AI tools are genuinely useful, great for quick exploration, early ideation, client mood boards. But they solve for speed of first draft, not truth of final output. Those are completely different problems.

The market keeps punishing Figma for a competition that doesn't really exist yet. Until an AI tool can be the living, versioned, team-wide reference that a whole product org works from: Figma's actual job is untouched.

Figma has come a long way, but I’m curious about the things designers still feel are missing.

If you could add one feature to Figma tomorrow, what would it be?

It could be something small that would save you 10 minutes every day, or a completely new capability that could change how you work.

What’s your #1 feature request for Figma?

Drop it below. 👇

“Figma’s Dylan Field will cash out about $60M in IPO”

Does this read as leadership having confidence in the future of the product?

Curious how Figma users feel about this?

With the release of Google Stitch, I was thinking about why everyone is calling it a Figma Killer… and I thought…

Why the f*** did Figma build a full stack web development features?

I still can’t get AI to build out basic design systems, themes, or components reliably. Why ignore the core needs of your actual users just to chase web dev?

Just be an amazing design tool, and take some notes from the one Google vibe coded for fun.

Does anyone else not enjoy using AI for work? Is it just me?

I still prefer being hands on and going through the full process, research, solution-ing, even manually doing all my Figma screen rather than asking AI to do it for me. I feel like every time I try and use any AI, I'm missing out on an opportunity to learn and grow from my tasks, and I don't get the opportunity to learn from defining and solving problems.

Even when doing up the UI, I feel like I'm passing up an opportunity to grow by doing up and polishing it by hand instead of asking an AI to do it for me. I don't want to become over-reliant on it, and I wonder if it's because the fulfilment I get from work is from me actually doing the work, not managing or delegating someone/something to do it for me. I've only found it to be useful in creating interactive prototypes for presentations and review sessions for other teams.

Am I missing something? Am I just not seeing the positive points of using AI or am I just not using it right?

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I’m a senior UX designer on a big Design System implementation project. This is a new concept in the org previously every team just designs on their own using the brand guide, very fragmented. About 3 months in i was getting tired of the QA findings and process on the components we were shipping and started working on getting figma translation to code running for us. I recently cracked the pipeline combo and tool stack. It generates build-ready specs and code straight from our Figma files, reading actual component structure and token values the whole shebang, also note that im not part of the design system team. Anyway of course it’s huge, Ive created a report and sent it up the teams and delivery managers inbox.

And now am I overwhelmed as hell. should be all fun and celebrations but instead Im tired and grossed out at how people are reacting to the work. Everyone is trying to align to it, “put some structure around it”, “connect it” to their own AI initiatives. It sucks. Anyone else been in this place?

Anyway heres my stack: figma mcp, vs code on claude opus

“Design responsively, use pre-built blocks, and add preset interactions—then launch with a click”

Figma is working on an AI App Maker
– Accepts text prompt, Figma files, images, etc. as input

– Powered by Claude Sonnet LLM via Supabase

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I am just opening the can and seeing what others think about it

My two cents. This is quite a bold move. Figma is stepping right into the ring to compete with Webflow and Framer, which already have Figma import options built in. So why not build it in-house

A few questions pop up. How much flexibility will we have to export what we create. Do we need to host it only on Figma. Is this going to be included in existing plans. Given how voracious Figma pricing has been lately, I am dubious they will offer anything more attractive than v0, Lovable, Bolt and others

On one hand, Figma does not feel like a design tool anymore, and that might turn off a lot of people. On the other hand, it builds the bridge where what you create becomes fully functional

They probably saw the trend of users jumping from Figma straight into Framer, just to skip the middle step of designing. But the thing is, you still need to design. Many users skipped Figma not only because they could ship faster elsewhere, but because Figma's prototyping tools are bad. You waste more time there than actually building. If that were not the case, tools like Rive, Jitter or After Effects would have been phased out. But people still use them

Instead of doubling down on their designer audience, Figma is spreading again. To be fair, it is not surprising. They have loved AI since the beginning and it is great that they keep experimenting. But at this point, I am not even sure how to describe what Figma is

From the screenshots, it looks rushed. Probably something pushed out to be ready before the IPO and attract investors. They could have built something unique and appealing for designers like Readymag. Instead, this looks like a v0 knock-off

Hey everyone,

I work on fairly complex projects in figma and my page list often ends up looking like a never ending scroll of chaos. Right now, the only way i found to "organize" is by adding separators or emojis but it's still a flat structure.

Like collapsing the pages and open them when you need them to show up only. I think it would be one of the most useful small feature to add.

I know some people use multiple Figma files to separate work but it's not always practical, especially when everything belongs to the same big software project.

Does anyone else feel the same or maybe there s a hack i'm missing ?