I don’t really buy that Claude Design will remove all the complexity around design. Vibe-coded apps using Claude look simpler because they are simpler. They’re not a gigantic product suite with extremely specific UI components tailored to each use case. The ‘simplicity’ is an illusion coming from conflating the complexity of a bicycle (a vibe coded app) with an airplane (an app like Figma).

Building the same design system component in code versus in Figma is going to be slightly more succinct in code; Figma’s primitives don’t have the sort of conditionals and control flow that code has. But code is much less malleable than drawing on a screen, and creative freedom is harder to achieve in code.

UI can fix the gap where code feels less malleable than Figma, but complexity comes largely from the worlds that humans create, and humans apparently want to create 8 modes for 4 products and 2 light/dark modes. If you want the same setup in Claude, it’ll be a little easier to maintain, but not much less complex.

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juliusceasar 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Most of the times people just want a bike or a car. Not everybody needs an airplane. This is going to hit Figma very hard.

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kibwen 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I admit I'm having a visceral reaction to this analogy. A bicycle is a sophisticated product whose form is almost pure function. Despite being apparenty simple, almost no regular person can draw even a reasonable facsimile of a bicycle from memory ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0_vXZ-3LFU ). Which is to say, for actually designing a functioning bicycle, the devil is in the details, and details are exactly where vibecoded apps fall down. Our lower bound for this analogy should instead be the downhill go-kart cobbled together from scrap wood you found in the dumpster.

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manyatoms 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Most of the times people just want a bike

with a pelican on it

	▲	nitroedge 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		that runs on a local model and looks better than Opus

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chatmasta 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Figma has been in trouble for a while. All the designers at my company switched to Cursor nearly a year ago. They made live mockups that don’t even need a spec to implement, because the expected behavior is already captured in the prototype. Claude Design makes it just marginally easier.

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andai an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Are those people using Figma?

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malfist 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The people that want just a bicycle wasn't going to buy figma

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mrits 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not to mention all the people hiring UX just because they don't want to deal with it themselves, not because they need something that requires a lot of skill.

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dyauspitr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Stitch has been around for a few months from hole and it does a better job than this. I bet designers are in the honeymoon phase of people don’t know this exists and this does my whole job phase.

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chr15m an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Making the complexity simpler is the whole thing. Any software that does it wins.