🔗 Thoughts and Feelings around Claude Design

I tried Claude Design and it exposed some uncomfortable truths about Figma. As design teams push for systematization, Figma created complex primitives that blend programming concepts with design. This has led to headaches in back-porting design changes to code — it's both inefficient and unnecessarily complicated. The underlying issue is that Figma's rigid system isn't staying relevant in the age of LLMs, which are trained on code, not design files.

I'm intrigued by Claude Design because it embraces HTML and JavaScript directly. This honesty about its code foundation allows for a faster feedback loop between design and implementation, unlike Figma Make, which still clings to its proprietary structures. The tension is palpable; as Claude navigates this shift, I wonder which other tools will emerge to redefine the design landscape. It's a pivotal moment that signals a shift away from Figma's dominance.

Maybe we're looking at a new era of design tooling that truly delivers on speed and flexibility instead of complexity and confusion.