Figma 3.0 (Dev Mode, AI, Slides and more) 

the whole 'the tech industry currently relies on exponential growth, and thats far from over' left the biggest bad taste in my mouth. i am not a figma investor. i do not want them to focus exponential growth. i am a figma user and want to not have my experience any more enshittified than they've done so far recently.

On: "Who thought we would mention C++ in a Figma video", believe it or not a massive portion of Figma's frontend is written in C++ compiled to WASM

Introducing FigmaBalls

With the launch of Figma Slides, I think that was an opportunity to rename Figjam to Figma Whiteboard, and "Figma" to Figma UI. So much better naming scheme

When a layperson sees a UI change or even a brand change: 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 When a designer sees a UI change or even a brand change: 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Marketing absolutely puts me off a product.

The big thing about exporting as CSS is not that we can use the exact styles but that we can understand the layout from the CSS/dev perspective

Figma is now at the next phase of their lifecycle. They’re more likely targeting new market of non-designers and developers. I’m wishing them the best, would love to see the $1B breakup fee in use

Hard coupling your component library is an absolute no in my book. Exporting design tokens to code - yes please, but entire components, no. It’s too much coupling and too complex to be compatible with all devices and mediums (ie PDF or Email will still need to follow the design system, but good luck generating components for those mediums with all their quirks as well as native and web)

The shock-face thumbnail to get views still works?

Even as a dev I love using figma, I was going to go to the watch party for the Config event that my “Friends Of Figma” chapter was holding but ended up not going. Honestly did not expect the update to be this big and I’m pretty hyped for the new UI and the slideshow feature and CodeConnect.

I mean I care about them stripping out old tools for devs to force us to buy dev mode. Like my entire workflow disappeared. Yes than tab for the CSS is gone. I'd love for them to fix the jank ass reversed order arrays which make up the layer tree - which make things like masking select order backwards. The workflow tools we'll see - 50% of the designers I've worked with wont adopt them because they (along with management) are happy to continue to let dev fall on the sword for them instead of have any accountability.

Hearing a developers viewpoint on these things is just what I needed. I've always wondered how the best handovers should look like. I've been using Avocode, Zeplin, Adobe Specs and Figma / dev mode. To me most developers seem a bit distant to Dev mode.

Oh look. They shut down the gen AI. 404 media has an article about it.

A 25 minute ad read 🙈

The pitch I made in Figma for our startup looked insane, so I'm hyped for Figma Slides. Actually, I'm hyped for all of these changes. Really cool Config this year!

7.2 / 10 - RU-vid-face thumbnail

Tailwind UI mentioned 🙌 🔥

Imo, AI design components is a such a gimmic. You never start with design to begin with. And if you do, you already have some guidelines, that AI generated design will not follow (unless it is specified in library, but it could be janky in most cases). And if I need a specific component, I will create in few minutes. Which would take the same time to fix issues that AI creates. I see it as a tool for dribbblers or for developers to generate quick and easy designs. That being said, I am not sure if I would ever use for client work, as an UI/UX designer.

If they can push the AI to run in the client, this would make the cost of the AI significantly less for Figma and thus more accessible to devs that just need something to get started with.

FYI you can turn off ai content training if you go to admin > settings and scroll to the bottom. I believe they are turning on training on August 15.

I'm really interested in what it would take to get my computer science students and my co-worker's graphic design students to the place where they can use the diff feature in at least a few meaningful projects.

Great Figma update synopsis !!!

Wow penpot's new UI looks so good

The funniest thing is that a small, kinda static, app, like Figma thinks it's important enough to have a whole conference. Figma doesn't even have some features vizio did in like 1994... and yet they spend their time on this nonsense... the bug to get connectors in figma has been open for like 7 years...

So, Theo does free advertising for companies now? He didn't even consider looking at (and sharing with the viewers) what the designers think about the new changes? Sounds like Theo.

As a developer I only hope that they hide Comments sidebar with new redesign, because I had to write custom CSS for their site to delete that sidebar, because it cover like 1/4 of a screen.

So American to not check what product names means in different languages. Might as well call it Smegma 🙈

This guy is a walking infomercial

Different amount of rotation on the cursor and rounded edges?! Seriously!? This is what is an improvement for you?

There's sooooo much jenk in Figma. I loathe it.

„Who would habe thought we would mention C++ in a Figma Video?“ - Figma is literally written in C++ …

Figma just invented GUI (git for UI)

FWIW, I'm a Theo fan, but I struggle to sit through videos where he kicks things off by just reading what's on the screen (which I read faster, so it's like having two people read at once in my head); and given his format of read 1-2 paragraphs, look at camera and have an aside, it makes it tough to skip the "listening to Theo read portions" and not miss the salient points. So more often then not, I just leave. /2¢

They should get rid of Dev Mode

this is only for pro plan not for free plan?

Is AD vaguely disguised as content

who the hell is steve jobs?

We actually don’t need to pull css from Figma if our org has a solid design system in place. We’re not supposed to fetch button sizes if we all agree on one button component with it’s specific props and variations

There were 666 likes on this video. We can't have that, so I liked it. 667 !!

Fun fact: My girlfriend (yes, a real one) actually uses Figma to create her slides

Rip

Ligma 3.0

Ligma is probably better.

Flutter 🤝Mobile flexbox

I love this mustache 🥰😋

So that’s why Adobe is so shit, greedy businessman designing for designers

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Hi

Do I need a subscription? I just want a dev mode 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼