Figma AI - Why I'm quitting Figma.

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[@LuigiFarming]

Figma balls

[@farhatarique3418]

Instead of helping the designer, Figma thought...ohh wait i can be the designer...what sort of fuckkerrry is this

[@Pablo-px3ct]

Its amazing for startups with lack of cash. They can skip paying designers.

[@farhatarique3418]

yes we need more designers speaking against Figma ...where is the outrage they are using our work to "try to replace" us. We should all abandon it ....

[@nigel-uno]

Are you going to destroy your iPhone that has AI? Your Android? These devices all have AI that have replaced some previously human jobs. Destroy your camera. Go hire a painter. These new AI powered features are genuinely useful.

[@dischorddynne]

@@nigel-uno AI tools are useful, but you can't compare them to a camera vs painter at all. That's two different skills, and you're nullifying the work of photographers to say that. Modern AI takes jobs through how it works instantaneously. That's the difference. They're great to use, yes, but they should be treated as a tool, not a replacement. It shouldn't be up to us to destroy the phone, it should be the company to not replace jobs.

[@ayushchandan4382]

@@dischorddynne Although I agree with most of what you're saying, you need to understand that the capitalist mindset only care about profits. Me as a developer this tool will be very useful for prototyping and quick designs. Obviously, you need a proper designer to get the design made properly but for a small company that can't afford a designer this will be very useful.

[@dischorddynne]

@@ayushchandan4382 Absolutely. I do think you need to remember that AI is still just getting started. It will be a great tool for outlines right now, but I don't see much it can do that a normal person can. I'm no designer, but my current project (Hopefully one day a startup) hasn't had any difficulty just using my own personal design skills. Absolutely, the capitalist state we live in (US?) is completely apathetic. It just wants to devour. That's why they made it that way. We as people are the ones who need to have empathy since "they" dont ;)

[@ayushchandan4382]

@@dischorddynne Alright that's a fair point, but don't you agree having this tool will speed up the process of you creating the initial designs? I have been designing my application for a while and it's the most tedious part of development in my opinion. Having a tool like that to just get it going no matter how shit it is in the starting make the development faster imo. Although I can do everything it can do, but it can do it faster. I'd like to think that's the point of these tools, to make development and designing faster. Also, the capitalist state we are in (india) is definitely apathetic but at the same time what would you do if you were in their position?

[@CristianSerran0]

AI won't replace designers. But a designer that uses AI will replace a designer that doesn't use AI. You're missing the point on AI, you should think about it as a way to level up our profession, in a way we can focus on bigger pieces, and stop fumbling about with things that have been done forever. Bitching about AI is like bitching about design systems. We still bring the logic thinking to make sense of all the little pieces. AI is just another piece of the puzzle for a good designer. For a bad one, it'll be a threat.

[@manylearn744]

With all due respect, this is a very reductive statement. AI utilities - such as generative fill, suggesting auto layouts, auto renaming layers are all very useful and welcome, this sort of thing should and will continue. If we look further to the video/post industry, Resolve has tools like magic mask, auto video transcription, vocal isolation and relighting. All powered by ML. These things are useful. What I’m talking about is wholesale generation of things being of limited use to professionals. It’s inherently derivative works and I think mostly useful to juniors - the exact people who are displaced by the coarse application of this technology. It can also open the door to greater interference from third parties and increased devaluation of the work of being a designer. Laypeople tend to think of coding as magic, because of a perceived high barrier to entry. “Its so complicated, I could never do that” But when it comes to design, because the output is easier to reason about and more immediately tangible, the layperson has all kinds of opinions and can easily hand wave away some of the intricacies. This isn’t new, you would have experienced this and it makes jobs harder and worse, more scarce as roles get merged and experts displaced. The “make design” and “make prototype” buttons hasten this. It’s of low utility to you or I, but hugely useful to a product manager. This will not be lost on Figma. That’s the point of the video, not “AI bad”

[@D4wn42]

I get where you are coming from, i was thinking about it this way for the last year as well and have been trying many AI-Tools, used them for client work and saw clients starting to use AI-integrated tools as well. It's not a great picture - while the quality of output is rising, the perceived value to our customer is sinking - as they get into the mindset of "well, AI can solve all my problems, why would i pay my agency, i'll just use ChatGPT etc." This is adobes target audience. We are training AI by our input, by the great images and layouts we create with it - and the corporations providing us the tools will, the first second they are trained enough - offer services directly to our customers, that for "only 50 bucks a month can get a full blown AI-Agency". This is adobes move, they will train their algorithms on the work of the whole creative industry - and create a business model that creates similar output, but without the human costs associated. without all the licenses and copyrights. let them go to hell.

[@hemdrupdesign]

Well said. ✨

[@TheDraiken]

AI will replace many designers regardless of whether the generated designs are good or not. The people that push AI at the top level of companies don't care about your design craft, if it's a generic or unique design, etc. They only care about reducing costs to increase profits. GenAI is basically a spam generator and the number of people selling generic designs "created" by it will explode. As a result it'll devalue the work of all designers, replacing many developers without a doubt. This generic claim that "tech Y won't replace X" is endlessly repeated and so is the fact that it keeps happening. Very naive take.