Start with asking it to get up to speed on your design system, or build you a design system from your brand guidelines... and it does a pretty good job.
It also does a surprisingly good job of using some of the more advanced Figma tools that a lot of human designers struggle with...
3 days in, I've been really impressed."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":true,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design"],"value":"Claude Design"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design"],"value":"https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs"}},"_tags":["comment","author_dbg31415","story_47806725"],"author":"dbg31415","comment_text":"I can't edit that... but yeah, Claude Design is significantly better than Figma Make.
Start with asking it to get up to speed on your design system, or build you a design system from your brand guidelines... and it does a pretty good job.
It also does a surprisingly good job of using some of the more advanced Figma tools that a lot of human designers struggle with...
3 days in, I've been really impressed.","created_at":"2026-04-22T02:38:33Z","created_at_i":1776825513,"objectID":"47858158","parent_id":47813174,"story_id":47806725,"story_title":"Claude Design","story_url":"https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs","updated_at":"2026-04-22T02:41:06Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"jjcm"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"> do you find that a lot of people use diffusion models for UI mockups? i\u2019ve always been surprised that people wouldn\u2019t use LLMs exclusively for that instead
Not yet, but it's what I quit my role at Figma to make a bet on for my startup. In my experience diffusion is a far, far better creative designer than LLMs. LLMs are trained for consistent output, which makes sense for a billing function, but leads to some very obvious smell when doing frontend work (take claude design as an example - it's often very obvious what comes out of it). Image models have a bit more creativity baked in, and are trained on color usage, whitespace, and visual balance a lot more. I've found the image->html approach leads to much better results, basically using an image model as an architect.
Would love to be connected with the team for when you all are ready to finetune it. My email is j@diffui.ai"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Krea 3 \u2013 Frontier Image Model 4\u00d7 faster than Nano Banana Pro"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.krea.ai/krea-3"}},"_tags":["comment","author_jjcm","story_50105648"],"author":"jjcm","comment_text":"> do you find that a lot of people use diffusion models for UI mockups? i\u2019ve always been surprised that people wouldn\u2019t use LLMs exclusively for that instead
Not yet, but it's what I quit my role at Figma to make a bet on for my startup. In my experience diffusion is a far, far better creative designer than LLMs. LLMs are trained for consistent output, which makes sense for a billing function, but leads to some very obvious smell when doing frontend work (take claude design as an example - it's often very obvious what comes out of it). Image models have a bit more creativity baked in, and are trained on color usage, whitespace, and visual balance a lot more. I've found the image->html approach leads to much better results, basically using an image model as an architect.
Would love to be connected with the team for when you all are ready to finetune it. My email is j@diffui.ai","created_at":"2026-10-15T17:58:55Z","created_at_i":1792087135,"objectID":"50107557","parent_id":50106985,"story_id":50105648,"story_title":"Krea 3 \u2013 Frontier Image Model 4\u00d7 faster than Nano Banana Pro","story_url":"https://www.krea.ai/krea-3","updated_at":"2026-10-15T18:00:33Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"miguel-muniz"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"Figma exists as an abstraction of code, which has always made it kind of difficult for them to implement code. For example, they have css snippets in dev mode when you have a frame selected, but those aren't really that useful since it doesn't know anything about your existing code base or frameworks.
Code connect was supposed to bridge this gap, allowing users to define how Figma components should generate relevant code snippets, but it only worked with React and they had some janky string based templating language for everything else. And of course, it meant someone would have to go through the effort of creating mappings for every component in your system. It's like writing a component twice, the same pitfall we were trying to avoid in the first place.
Now people will just ask their AI to pull the frames from Figma through the remote MCP and have the AI implement it that way. But to that end, why not just have designers make a branch in the codebase and have them implement the UI? This is the question many of us have been asking ourselves lately.
They continue to iterate though. They've introduced Code Layers so real codebases can render on the canvas, but in infamous Figma fashion it only works with a limited set of React codebases. Figma Make (their Lovable, Bolt.new, Claude Design like product) can also pull in existing codebases, but again it is very limited in the types of code bases it can work on.
These limitations are all so exhuasting. It's just so much easier to use Claude Code or Codex to do what I need. At this point Figma is more of a secondary tool for when I need to document a prototype or want a canvas for exploration purposes."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["figma"],"value":"Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://twitter.com/GayaniFigma/status/2105295629941350454"}},"_tags":["comment","author_miguel-muniz","story_49922729"],"author":"miguel-muniz","children":[49927627],"comment_text":"Figma exists as an abstraction of code, which has always made it kind of difficult for them to implement code. For example, they have css snippets in dev mode when you have a frame selected, but those aren't really that useful since it doesn't know anything about your existing code base or frameworks.
Code connect was supposed to bridge this gap, allowing users to define how Figma components should generate relevant code snippets, but it only worked with React and they had some janky string based templating language for everything else. And of course, it meant someone would have to go through the effort of creating mappings for every component in your system. It's like writing a component twice, the same pitfall we were trying to avoid in the first place.
Now people will just ask their AI to pull the frames from Figma through the remote MCP and have the AI implement it that way. But to that end, why not just have designers make a branch in the codebase and have them implement the UI? This is the question many of us have been asking ourselves lately.
They continue to iterate though. They've introduced Code Layers so real codebases can render on the canvas, but in infamous Figma fashion it only works with a limited set of React codebases. Figma Make (their Lovable, Bolt.new, Claude Design like product) can also pull in existing codebases, but again it is very limited in the types of code bases it can work on.
These limitations are all so exhuasting. It's just so much easier to use Claude Code or Codex to do what I need. At this point Figma is more of a secondary tool for when I need to document a prototype or want a canvas for exploration purposes.","created_at":"2026-10-01T21:11:35Z","created_at_i":1790889095,"objectID":"49927141","parent_id":49926816,"story_id":49922729,"story_title":"Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi","story_url":"https://twitter.com/GayaniFigma/status/2105295629941350454","updated_at":"2026-10-02T10:57:17Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"cebert"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"This seems much less capable than Claude Design or Figma. I don\u2019t see much value here as most LLMs could quickly make these prototypes too."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["design"],"value":"PanelSpec \u2013 design UI on real devices, export layout prompts for AI codegen"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.ismartbase.com/designer/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_cebert","story_48755509"],"author":"cebert","children":[48755847],"comment_text":"This seems much less capable than Claude Design or Figma. I don\u2019t see much value here as most LLMs could quickly make these prototypes too.","created_at":"2026-07-02T02:32:59Z","created_at_i":1782959579,"objectID":"48755746","parent_id":48755509,"story_id":48755509,"story_title":"PanelSpec \u2013 design UI on real devices, export layout prompts for AI codegen","story_url":"https://www.ismartbase.com/designer/","updated_at":"2026-07-02T02:46:32Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"sgarrity"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"I agree (at least for now) that Claude Design doesn't directly compete with the core Figma tool. It does directly compete with Figma Make - which is also an LLM-powered tool that generates HTML/CSS/JS output (not a canvas of components, like Figma's core product).
I do think Figma will have a problem that people with think Claude Design competes with Figma directly.
I expect people in leadership positions aren't comparing "Claude Design vs. Figma", but area comparing "Me and my product manager using Claude Design vs. A designer using Figma.""},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma"],"value":"Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design"],"value":"https://martinalderson.com/posts/figmas-woes-compound-with-claude-design/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_sgarrity","story_47832366"],"author":"sgarrity","comment_text":"I agree (at least for now) that Claude Design doesn't directly compete with the core Figma tool. It does directly compete with Figma Make - which is also an LLM-powered tool that generates HTML/CSS/JS output (not a canvas of components, like Figma's core product).
I do think Figma will have a problem that people with think Claude Design competes with Figma directly.
I expect people in leadership positions aren't comparing "Claude Design vs. Figma", but area comparing "Me and my product manager using Claude Design vs. A designer using Figma."","created_at":"2026-04-21T14:03:43Z","created_at_i":1776780223,"objectID":"47848989","parent_id":47833523,"story_id":47832366,"story_title":"Figma's woes compound with Claude Design","story_url":"https://martinalderson.com/posts/figmas-woes-compound-with-claude-design/","updated_at":"2026-04-21T14:06:05Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"rcleveng"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"I tried out claude design yesterday and I have to say, it's exactly what I thought (hoped?) Figma Make was going to be.
I didn't want yet another lovable.dev or v0 with figma make, I wanted the prompt -> figma design which I could iterate on by hand once I got something in place (and also faster route to creating the prototype in figma) to play with the UX of it."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma"],"value":"Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design"],"value":"https://martinalderson.com/posts/figmas-woes-compound-with-claude-design/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_rcleveng","story_47832366"],"author":"rcleveng","comment_text":"I tried out claude design yesterday and I have to say, it's exactly what I thought (hoped?) Figma Make was going to be.
I didn't want yet another lovable.dev or v0 with figma make, I wanted the prompt -> figma design which I could iterate on by hand once I got something in place (and also faster route to creating the prototype in figma) to play with the UX of it.","created_at":"2026-04-20T21:47:06Z","created_at_i":1776721626,"objectID":"47841356","parent_id":47832366,"story_id":47832366,"story_title":"Figma's woes compound with Claude Design","story_url":"https://martinalderson.com/posts/figmas-woes-compound-with-claude-design/","updated_at":"2026-04-21T12:43:33Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"luckylion"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"figma has figma make to do these things, and it's much worse. It can only generate react code, even if you ask it not to. claude design worked great on the first attempt for me, miles ahead of what figma make does."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":true,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design"],"value":"Claude Design"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design"],"value":"https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs"}},"_tags":["comment","author_luckylion","story_47806725"],"author":"luckylion","comment_text":"figma has figma make to do these things, and it's much worse. It can only generate react code, even if you ask it not to. claude design worked great on the first attempt for me, miles ahead of what figma make does.","created_at":"2026-04-18T08:57:28Z","created_at_i":1776502648,"objectID":"47814350","parent_id":47807248,"story_id":47806725,"story_title":"Claude Design","story_url":"https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs","updated_at":"2026-04-27T20:58:12Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"dbg31415"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"Modern Figma design libraries are one of the best things to happen to product teams in the last 20 years.
Reusable components. Shared styles. Auto layout. Variants. Design tokens. So many useful plugins! Interactive prototypes. Dev mode handoff. Versioned libraries. A single source of truth keeping designers, engineers, and PMs speaking the same language.
It's fucking bliss when you use it right. And best of all, anyone on the team can build with the legos the designers gave us!
Teams finally started treating the design system like infrastructure instead of decoration.
Then Figma Make showed up.
It generates pages that ignore your components, skip your tokens, and treat every screen like a fresh snowflake. Looks fine in the mockup. Lands like a brick on the dev team. Now every page is bespoke and every handoff is a rebuild. Fucking sucks.
We had it all figured out, then we fucked it up.
AI was supposed to accelerate momentum. But it just so completely lacks maturity. AI Tools are dragging teams back to 2010, when every page was a Photoshop file (with way too many layers and shitty names for them) and none of the designers can agree on what radius to assign to their buttons.
Good design systems are a discipline. If your AI tool doesn't respect the library, it's not a designer. It's an intern with a Molotov cocktail waiting to destroy your productivity.
I haven't used Claude Design yet, I'll try it, but I LOVE Figma, and I hate Figma Make. I don't have high hopes for Claude here."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":true,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design"],"value":"Claude Design"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design"],"value":"https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs"}},"_tags":["comment","author_dbg31415","story_47806725"],"author":"dbg31415","children":[47858158],"comment_text":"Modern Figma design libraries are one of the best things to happen to product teams in the last 20 years.
Reusable components. Shared styles. Auto layout. Variants. Design tokens. So many useful plugins! Interactive prototypes. Dev mode handoff. Versioned libraries. A single source of truth keeping designers, engineers, and PMs speaking the same language.
It's fucking bliss when you use it right. And best of all, anyone on the team can build with the legos the designers gave us!
Teams finally started treating the design system like infrastructure instead of decoration.
Then Figma Make showed up.
It generates pages that ignore your components, skip your tokens, and treat every screen like a fresh snowflake. Looks fine in the mockup. Lands like a brick on the dev team. Now every page is bespoke and every handoff is a rebuild. Fucking sucks.
We had it all figured out, then we fucked it up.
AI was supposed to accelerate momentum. But it just so completely lacks maturity. AI Tools are dragging teams back to 2010, when every page was a Photoshop file (with way too many layers and shitty names for them) and none of the designers can agree on what radius to assign to their buttons.
Good design systems are a discipline. If your AI tool doesn't respect the library, it's not a designer. It's an intern with a Molotov cocktail waiting to destroy your productivity.
I haven't used Claude Design yet, I'll try it, but I LOVE Figma, and I hate Figma Make. I don't have high hopes for Claude here.","created_at":"2026-04-18T04:38:41Z","created_at_i":1776487121,"objectID":"47813174","parent_id":47806725,"story_id":47806725,"story_title":"Claude Design","story_url":"https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs","updated_at":"2026-04-22T02:39:21Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"aurareturn"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"I tried Figma again after a few years expecting that they'd surely have a tool that lets me describe a design and then it generates a Figma design file.
Nope. Figma Make first renders an HTML/React app with your design. Then you could convert to a Figma design file if you have a pro plan. Extremely underwhelming.
There's hardly any difference between using Figma and just designing it with Codex and Claude Code. And now, Claude Design seems to get it right."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":true,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design"],"value":"Claude Design"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design"],"value":"https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs"}},"_tags":["comment","author_aurareturn","story_47806725"],"author":"aurareturn","comment_text":"I tried Figma again after a few years expecting that they'd surely have a tool that lets me describe a design and then it generates a Figma design file.
Nope. Figma Make first renders an HTML/React app with your design. Then you could convert to a Figma design file if you have a pro plan. Extremely underwhelming.
There's hardly any difference between using Figma and just designing it with Codex and Claude Code. And now, Claude Design seems to get it right.","created_at":"2026-04-17T17:50:38Z","created_at_i":1776448238,"objectID":"47808609","parent_id":47807406,"story_id":47806725,"story_title":"Claude Design","story_url":"https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs","updated_at":"2026-04-17T17:55:06Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"MayCXC"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"With a vibecoded multiplayer web IDE for our flutter app, I have two nontechnical team members prototype app features from a browser all day. The outcome is a git branch with functional dart code, and a strictly more powerful design prompt than figma make. Claude built its own claude -p harness that communicates with the browser via websocket flawlessly. To use our max subscription after [1] takes effect, we are considering adapting that setup to an approach like [2] instead.
[1] https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2054610152817619388
[2] https://lanes.sh/blog/claude-billing-split"},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma"],"value":"I design with Claude more than Figma now"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma"],"value":"https://blog.janestreet.com/i-design-with-claude-code-more-than-figma-now-index/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_MayCXC","story_48431981"],"author":"MayCXC","comment_text":"With a vibecoded multiplayer web IDE for our flutter app, I have two nontechnical team members prototype app features from a browser all day. The outcome is a git branch with functional dart code, and a strictly more powerful design prompt than figma make. Claude built its own claude -p harness that communicates with the browser via websocket flawlessly. To use our max subscription after [1] takes effect, we are considering adapting that setup to an approach like [2] instead.
[1] https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2054610152817619388
[2] https://lanes.sh/blog/claude-billing-split","created_at":"2026-06-08T14:49:47Z","created_at_i":1780930187,"objectID":"48446160","parent_id":48431981,"story_id":48431981,"story_title":"I design with Claude more than Figma now","story_url":"https://blog.janestreet.com/i-design-with-claude-code-more-than-figma-now-index/","updated_at":"2026-06-08T14:50:32Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"oliyoung"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"But then that furthers the argument that Figma is dead-in-the-water
These are a design communication tools, in the same way FrontPage and Dreamweaver back in the day - they enable a designer to communicate intent to create solutions to UX design problems in a way that can be understood by downstream production.
Using Figma doesn't immediately make something aesthetic or useful, its just a tool. Claude Design enables the same thing, it enables someone to communicate design intent, with a much lower bar.
These AI tools like Loveable just do more of the groundwork than Figma does"},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma"],"value":"Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design"],"value":"https://martinalderson.com/posts/figmas-woes-compound-with-claude-design/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_oliyoung","story_47832366"],"author":"oliyoung","comment_text":"But then that furthers the argument that Figma is dead-in-the-water
These are a design communication tools, in the same way FrontPage and Dreamweaver back in the day - they enable a designer to communicate intent to create solutions to UX design problems in a way that can be understood by downstream production.
Using Figma doesn't immediately make something aesthetic or useful, its just a tool. Claude Design enables the same thing, it enables someone to communicate design intent, with a much lower bar.
These AI tools like Loveable just do more of the groundwork than Figma does","created_at":"2026-04-20T23:34:02Z","created_at_i":1776728042,"objectID":"47842556","parent_id":47840492,"story_id":47832366,"story_title":"Figma's woes compound with Claude Design","story_url":"https://martinalderson.com/posts/figmas-woes-compound-with-claude-design/","updated_at":"2026-04-21T12:39:34Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"jensrusi"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"Munich, Germany | Remote (CET, overlaps US mornings) | Freelance / contract only, not seeking employment
20+ years across product, UX and frontend, now doing user-facing AI engineering.
What I do best right now: you shipped an app fast with Lovable / v0 / Cursor and it works, but it looks and behaves like the AI default. I take that codebase and make it actually usable and on-brand. Real design system in code (not a Figma file nobody maintains), consistent components, the polish and interaction layer that makes it feel like a product instead of a prototype. Done-for-you, in your repo.
I also help teams that already build with AI but get inconsistent, off-brand results, via a hands-on workshop / masterclass, so your people can produce in your own style instead of getting generic output.
Tech: React/Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, design systems / design tokens, Figma, Claude Code + agentic workflows.
CV/portfolio: https://kickboost.io/cv Email: jens.rusi@kickboost.io
Happy to start with a small paid scope so you can see the fit."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"}},"_tags":["comment","author_jensrusi","story_48747975"],"author":"jensrusi","children":[48749688],"comment_text":"Munich, Germany | Remote (CET, overlaps US mornings) | Freelance / contract only, not seeking employment
20+ years across product, UX and frontend, now doing user-facing AI engineering.
What I do best right now: you shipped an app fast with Lovable / v0 / Cursor and it works, but it looks and behaves like the AI default. I take that codebase and make it actually usable and on-brand. Real design system in code (not a Figma file nobody maintains), consistent components, the polish and interaction layer that makes it feel like a product instead of a prototype. Done-for-you, in your repo.
I also help teams that already build with AI but get inconsistent, off-brand results, via a hands-on workshop / masterclass, so your people can produce in your own style instead of getting generic output.
Tech: React/Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, design systems / design tokens, Figma, Claude Code + agentic workflows.
CV/portfolio: https://kickboost.io/cv Email: jens.rusi@kickboost.io
Happy to start with a small paid scope so you can see the fit.","created_at":"2026-07-01T15:23:04Z","created_at_i":1782919384,"objectID":"48748389","parent_id":48747975,"story_id":48747975,"story_title":"Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)","updated_at":"2026-07-01T21:35:05Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"GenerWork"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"This is what I'm seeing in the design market. With Figma Make, you can write a prompt, tell it to use your design library, generate a flow, and then hand it off to developers and say "Hey, look at this, can you implement this?". Alternatively, you can use Cursor/Claude Code/Codex to pull in Figma design system elements via MCP, and generate flows that way. You can push features so much faster with the same or fewer people, and lets be honest, pushing more features in less time is the #1 metric at a lot of companies even if they claim otherwise."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"The gruesome new data on tech jobs"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.businessinsider.com/gruesome-tech-jobs-data-scientists-analytics-indeed-2025-11"}},"_tags":["comment","author_GenerWork","story_46052527"],"author":"GenerWork","children":[46061349],"comment_text":"This is what I'm seeing in the design market. With Figma Make, you can write a prompt, tell it to use your design library, generate a flow, and then hand it off to developers and say "Hey, look at this, can you implement this?". Alternatively, you can use Cursor/Claude Code/Codex to pull in Figma design system elements via MCP, and generate flows that way. You can push features so much faster with the same or fewer people, and lets be honest, pushing more features in less time is the #1 metric at a lot of companies even if they claim otherwise.","created_at":"2025-11-26T02:06:12Z","created_at_i":1764122772,"objectID":"46053390","parent_id":46053207,"story_id":46052527,"story_title":"The gruesome new data on tech jobs","story_url":"https://www.businessinsider.com/gruesome-tech-jobs-data-scientists-analytics-indeed-2025-11","updated_at":"2026-03-05T23:07:50Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"suleimanyusuf"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"Availability : Immediate
About: Senior UI/UX Designer with 7+ years across AI-driven consumer and enterprise platforms. Shipped an AI POS at RadiusAI now live in 900+ stores and NFL stadiums ($150K+ processed, 7K transactions, ~6s checkouts). Patent holder \u2014 EEG-controlled exoskeleton for post-stroke rehab. Integrate AI into design workflows to move faster from problem to validated interaction.
Location: Remote (Asia + worldwide), async-friendly across time zones\nRemote: Yes\nWilling to relocate: India and UAE
Technologies:\n Design: Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop\n Prototyping: Figma, Figma Make, Framer, After Effects\n Animation: Lottie, LottieLab, After Effects\n AI: Claude MCP, Google AI Studio, Figma Make\n Wireframing & Flows: Figma, FigJam, Miro\n Handoff: Zeplin, Figma
Skills: design systems, prototyping, journey mapping, usability testing, info architecture, system design, responsive design, user modeling, prompt engineering, AI workflows, generative UX, AI validation, AI strategy
Portfolio: https://suleimanyusuf.framer.website/\nResume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CoRMzO0nR-eHmgrcZY8RBt-Zesi...\nEmail: suleimanyusufbiomedi720@gmail.com"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"}},"_tags":["comment","author_suleimanyusuf","story_47975570"],"author":"suleimanyusuf","comment_text":"Availability : Immediate
About: Senior UI/UX Designer with 7+ years across AI-driven consumer and enterprise platforms. Shipped an AI POS at RadiusAI now live in 900+ stores and NFL stadiums ($150K+ processed, 7K transactions, ~6s checkouts). Patent holder \u2014 EEG-controlled exoskeleton for post-stroke rehab. Integrate AI into design workflows to move faster from problem to validated interaction.
Location: Remote (Asia + worldwide), async-friendly across time zones\nRemote: Yes\nWilling to relocate: India and UAE
Technologies:\n Design: Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop\n Prototyping: Figma, Figma Make, Framer, After Effects\n Animation: Lottie, LottieLab, After Effects\n AI: Claude MCP, Google AI Studio, Figma Make\n Wireframing & Flows: Figma, FigJam, Miro\n Handoff: Zeplin, Figma
Skills: design systems, prototyping, journey mapping, usability testing, info architecture, system design, responsive design, user modeling, prompt engineering, AI workflows, generative UX, AI validation, AI strategy
Portfolio: https://suleimanyusuf.framer.website/\nResume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CoRMzO0nR-eHmgrcZY8RBt-Zesi...\nEmail: suleimanyusufbiomedi720@gmail.com","created_at":"2026-05-02T17:04:00Z","created_at_i":1777741440,"objectID":"47988187","parent_id":47975570,"story_id":47975570,"story_title":"Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)","updated_at":"2026-05-02T22:10:59Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"aurareturn"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"
People that think that Claude Design is going to replace Figma don\u2019t really understand how both products relate.\nI think the most effective teams will be working within Claude, not within Figma.
For individual creators, this will definitely replace Figma. I bought Sketch for use as an individual creator because I wanted to create mocks before coding them. There's no way I'd make the same purchase today.
Anyways, I'm sure Claude Design will incorporate some of Figma's features such as a company wide design language."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma"],"value":"Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design"],"value":"https://martinalderson.com/posts/figmas-woes-compound-with-claude-design/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_aurareturn","story_47832366"],"author":"aurareturn","comment_text":"
People that think that Claude Design is going to replace Figma don\u2019t really understand how both products relate.\nI think the most effective teams will be working within Claude, not within Figma.
For individual creators, this will definitely replace Figma. I bought Sketch for use as an individual creator because I wanted to create mocks before coding them. There's no way I'd make the same purchase today.
Anyways, I'm sure Claude Design will incorporate some of Figma's features such as a company wide design language.","created_at":"2026-04-20T12:07:22Z","created_at_i":1776686842,"objectID":"47833111","parent_id":47832921,"story_id":47832366,"story_title":"Figma's woes compound with Claude Design","story_url":"https://martinalderson.com/posts/figmas-woes-compound-with-claude-design/","updated_at":"2026-04-21T12:27:48Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"kgwgk"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"> People that think that Claude Design is going to replace Figma don\u2019t really understand how both products relate. Claude Design empowers non-designers to make decent designs.
Maybe it will replace (a large share of) Figma users."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma"],"value":"Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design"],"value":"https://martinalderson.com/posts/figmas-woes-compound-with-claude-design/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_kgwgk","story_47832366"],"author":"kgwgk","children":[47833148],"comment_text":"> People that think that Claude Design is going to replace Figma don\u2019t really understand how both products relate. Claude Design empowers non-designers to make decent designs.
Maybe it will replace (a large share of) Figma users.","created_at":"2026-04-20T11:54:23Z","created_at_i":1776686063,"objectID":"47832993","parent_id":47832921,"story_id":47832366,"story_title":"Figma's woes compound with Claude Design","story_url":"https://martinalderson.com/posts/figmas-woes-compound-with-claude-design/","updated_at":"2026-04-27T20:43:44Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"stingraycharles"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"> Anthropic themselves launched Claude Design which is a pretty direct competitor to Figma in many ways. While it's nowhere near functional and polished enough to replace Figma's core design product, I expect it will get significant traction outside of that
The reaction that designers I know have given Claude Design couldn\u2019t be different than how Claude Code was received by software devs. It\u2019s simply useless for designers, their workflow is very different from software devs. You can\u2019t \u201coh let Claude Design come up with a quick logo for this\u201d in the same way that Claude Code was able to quickly solve small annoyances for devs.
People that think that Claude Design is going to replace Figma don\u2019t really understand how both products relate.
Claude Design empowers non-designers to make decent designs. It\u2019s not aimed at designers.
Figma will probably better integrate AI in their own offering at some point which will help designers become more productive. And that will be the end of it."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma"],"value":"Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design"],"value":"https://martinalderson.com/posts/figmas-woes-compound-with-claude-design/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_stingraycharles","story_47832366"],"author":"stingraycharles","children":[47832973,47832993,47833111,47833173,47833191,47833335,47833368,47833452,47833498,47833844,47833902,47840489],"comment_text":"> Anthropic themselves launched Claude Design which is a pretty direct competitor to Figma in many ways. While it's nowhere near functional and polished enough to replace Figma's core design product, I expect it will get significant traction outside of that
The reaction that designers I know have given Claude Design couldn\u2019t be different than how Claude Code was received by software devs. It\u2019s simply useless for designers, their workflow is very different from software devs. You can\u2019t \u201coh let Claude Design come up with a quick logo for this\u201d in the same way that Claude Code was able to quickly solve small annoyances for devs.
People that think that Claude Design is going to replace Figma don\u2019t really understand how both products relate.
Claude Design empowers non-designers to make decent designs. It\u2019s not aimed at designers.
Figma will probably better integrate AI in their own offering at some point which will help designers become more productive. And that will be the end of it.","created_at":"2026-04-20T11:46:08Z","created_at_i":1776685568,"objectID":"47832921","parent_id":47832366,"story_id":47832366,"story_title":"Figma's woes compound with Claude Design","story_url":"https://martinalderson.com/posts/figmas-woes-compound-with-claude-design/","updated_at":"2026-04-24T16:17:46Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"pypt"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"Sure, the blog post is AI generated (I'm not a native English speaker, our bunch is often shy about our English language skills), yet the research I've done there is manual.
I found it interesting that (contrary to the popular opinion) there wasn't some magic, e.g. a novel model, happening with Claude Design, especially magic enough that Figma wouldn't be able to replicate if they felt like it.
Also, apparently human (not artificial) neurons were behind that huge prompt, very well aware of the limitations of the model, cheating here and there to make Design's outputs more impressive, making it "create a (design) plan" beforehand, i.e. all the stuff that we the common laymen could do ourselves with the same tools."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design"],"value":"Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["claude","design"],"value":"https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260418-claude-design/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_pypt","story_47818700"],"author":"pypt","comment_text":"Sure, the blog post is AI generated (I'm not a native English speaker, our bunch is often shy about our English language skills), yet the research I've done there is manual.
I found it interesting that (contrary to the popular opinion) there wasn't some magic, e.g. a novel model, happening with Claude Design, especially magic enough that Figma wouldn't be able to replicate if they felt like it.
Also, apparently human (not artificial) neurons were behind that huge prompt, very well aware of the limitations of the model, cheating here and there to make Design's outputs more impressive, making it "create a (design) plan" beforehand, i.e. all the stuff that we the common laymen could do ourselves with the same tools.","created_at":"2026-04-19T07:14:24Z","created_at_i":1776582864,"objectID":"47822390","parent_id":47822256,"story_id":47818700,"story_title":"Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design","story_url":"https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260418-claude-design/","updated_at":"2026-04-19T20:41:12Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"adamgins"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"Hello HN,
I'm Adam, the founder of Buzzy. Recently, I've been exploring the integration of AI capabilities into no-code platforms. I documented the process of building an AI-powered chatbot using Figma for design, Buzzy to convert designs into functional apps, and Make (formerly Integromat) for workflow automation.
Key Highlights:
Designing in Figma: Starting with a chat app template and customizing it to specific needs.\nBuilding with Buzzy: Transforming Figma designs into working applications seamlessly.\nAutomating with Make: Connecting the app to AI services like Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI for dynamic user interactions.\nI'm eager to gather insights and feedback from this community:
Have you integrated AI into your no-code projects? What challenges did you encounter?\nAre there specific features or improvements you'd suggest for this workflow?\nHow do you envision the future of AI in no-code development?\nFor those interested in a detailed walkthrough, I've shared a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WLEiRV-AaM
Your experiences and suggestions are invaluable, and I'm keen to engage in a constructive discussion.
Thank you for your time and input."},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["figma","make"],"value":"Show HN: No-Code AI Chatbot Builder Using Figma, Buzzy, and Make"}},"_tags":["story","author_adamgins","story_43157384","show_hn"],"author":"adamgins","created_at":"2025-02-24T09:11:49Z","created_at_i":1740388309,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"43157384","points":3,"story_id":43157384,"story_text":"Hello HN,
I'm Adam, the founder of Buzzy. Recently, I've been exploring the integration of AI capabilities into no-code platforms. I documented the process of building an AI-powered chatbot using Figma for design, Buzzy to convert designs into functional apps, and Make (formerly Integromat) for workflow automation.
Key Highlights:
Designing in Figma: Starting with a chat app template and customizing it to specific needs.\nBuilding with Buzzy: Transforming Figma designs into working applications seamlessly.\nAutomating with Make: Connecting the app to AI services like Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI for dynamic user interactions.\nI'm eager to gather insights and feedback from this community:
Have you integrated AI into your no-code projects? What challenges did you encounter?\nAre there specific features or improvements you'd suggest for this workflow?\nHow do you envision the future of AI in no-code development?\nFor those interested in a detailed walkthrough, I've shared a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WLEiRV-AaM
Your experiences and suggestions are invaluable, and I'm keen to engage in a constructive discussion.
Thank you for your time and input.","title":"Show HN: No-Code AI Chatbot Builder Using Figma, Buzzy, and Make","updated_at":"2025-02-24T09:44:59Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"thejarren"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["claude","design","figma","make"],"value":"Hey HN, I'm really excited to share Emra with you. The yc description would be: It's like "Notion meets Lovable". It's a workspace where you build full apps using AI and every app sits on one shared database and service layer. Generated apps are always editable, and (coming soon:) can interact with each other in the workspace.
I'm of the opinion that the cost of software will go rapidly to zero (I don't think that's too surprising to any of you), but there will always be room for effort and creativity. Emra is essentially built for the future where every person is a developer. Essentially personal software for everyone.
So far I've built notes apps with a 3d graph view to see connections, a video editing app and a canvas design tool (figma clone) with export capabilities, as well as a collection of project management tools and games. Right now the most satisfying thing is being able to fix a bug I run into in around the same amount of time that it takes to send a bug report in any traditional app.
We're using the best models to make this work at the moment. Basically anything Opus 4.6 or later, as far as I'm concerned is the baseline of what we can use to make this happen. Our agent is currently only capable of building, though that will change rapidly, and we are pretty proud that our build loop is more token efficient than using Claude Code or other harnesses.
Arguably we are in the same category as Dreamer (Meta acquired) or Wabi (raised $20m), but at the moment we're bootstrapped and working to deliver as much value to users as possible. Users will be soon be able to download their data and apps at any time (I like to think of it as extending obsidians "file over app" philosophy to file+app). In general, I think for a platform like this to exist, we want to be as value aligned with users as possible. So our focus is on providing a solid service layer that abstracts away the complexity of most modern full stack applications. Ideally, people using Emra pay for hosting or usage and we earn our spot rather than locking you in.
On the technical side, we feel good right now. We know there will be some scaling + security challenges, but honestly, our biggest hurdle at the moment is rebuilding existing applications in a way that makes them actually worth using inside of Emra, basically solving that blank page problem.
We are building apps on an SDK that we plan on open sourcing over the next month or so, and will also provide a CLI tool so people can build Emra apps inside of Claude Code or other agents (this is how we are actually building many of our app store apps). I'm also still trying to nail down the messaging. Initially I had planned on aggressively focusing on consumer, but the cost to build an app is still prohibitive, so we're going to keep testing different approaches.
We're still very early, so I'd really appreciate any honest feedback. And I'm happy to answer any questions you might have."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Emra \u2013 A workspace where every app you build shares one db"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://emra.app"}},"_tags":["story","author_thejarren","story_48778145","show_hn"],"author":"thejarren","children":[48778362],"created_at":"2026-07-03T18:21:41Z","created_at_i":1783102901,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"48778145","points":3,"story_id":48778145,"story_text":"Hey HN, I'm really excited to share Emra with you. The yc description would be: It's like "Notion meets Lovable". It's a workspace where you build full apps using AI and every app sits on one shared database and service layer. Generated apps are always editable, and (coming soon:) can interact with each other in the workspace.
I'm of the opinion that the cost of software will go rapidly to zero (I don't think that's too surprising to any of you), but there will always be room for effort and creativity. Emra is essentially built for the future where every person is a developer. Essentially personal software for everyone.
So far I've built notes apps with a 3d graph view to see connections, a video editing app and a canvas design tool (figma clone) with export capabilities, as well as a collection of project management tools and games. Right now the most satisfying thing is being able to fix a bug I run into in around the same amount of time that it takes to send a bug report in any traditional app.
We're using the best models to make this work at the moment. Basically anything Opus 4.6 or later, as far as I'm concerned is the baseline of what we can use to make this happen. Our agent is currently only capable of building, though that will change rapidly, and we are pretty proud that our build loop is more token efficient than using Claude Code or other harnesses.
Arguably we are in the same category as Dreamer (Meta acquired) or Wabi (raised $20m), but at the moment we're bootstrapped and working to deliver as much value to users as possible. Users will be soon be able to download their data and apps at any time (I like to think of it as extending obsidians "file over app" philosophy to file+app). In general, I think for a platform like this to exist, we want to be as value aligned with users as possible. So our focus is on providing a solid service layer that abstracts away the complexity of most modern full stack applications. Ideally, people using Emra pay for hosting or usage and we earn our spot rather than locking you in.
On the technical side, we feel good right now. We know there will be some scaling + security challenges, but honestly, our biggest hurdle at the moment is rebuilding existing applications in a way that makes them actually worth using inside of Emra, basically solving that blank page problem.
We are building apps on an SDK that we plan on open sourcing over the next month or so, and will also provide a CLI tool so people can build Emra apps inside of Claude Code or other agents (this is how we are actually building many of our app store apps). I'm also still trying to nail down the messaging. Initially I had planned on aggressively focusing on consumer, but the cost to build an app is still prohibitive, so we're going to keep testing different approaches.
We're still very early, so I'd really appreciate any honest feedback. And I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.","title":"Show HN: Emra \u2013 A workspace where every app you build shares one db","updated_at":"2026-07-03T20:26:08Z","url":"https://emra.app"}],"hitsPerPage":20,"nbHits":67,"nbPages":4,"page":0,"params":"query=Claude+Design+Figma+Make&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":20,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"queue":20,"roundTrip":24},"afterFetch":{"format":{"highlighting":2,"total":2},"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":1,"total":1},"total":1},"total":1},"fetch":{"query":8,"scanning":9,"total":18},"total":20},"query":"Claude Design Figma Make","serverTimeMS":43}