Hi everyone! I’ve been following Figma as an investor and wanted to get some real user feedback on their recent changes. In the past few months they launched several new things including their prompt-to-design AI tool, the credit-based AI system, Dev Mode improvements with server integration, and some new website building features.
As people who actually use Figma every day, I’m curious about:
• Are these AI tools actually helpful in your day-to-day work?
• Do they make you more efficient or do they take away from the design process?
• Is Figma staying competitive with tools like Adobe, Canva and Webflow with these updates?
I’d really appreciate honest feedback from the community about how these changes are working out in practice.
totally feel ya! those ai features can be hit or miss, right? i find myself tweaking a lot too. sometimes starting from scratch is way easier than fixing what the ai does.
Been testing these AI features for months. Biggest problem? Everything’s still manual. You generate a design, then manually export assets, update docs, sync with dev tools.
I connected Figma to our entire workflow instead. Now when we use AI to generate designs, everything flows automatically - creates tickets for devs, updates our design system docs, syncs with project management.
The prompt-to-design tool’s decent for concepts, but the real power comes after. I set up workflows that take AI designs and prep them for dev review, extract color palettes for brand guidelines, sync with our code repo.
Figma’s staying competitive, but if you’re just using it standalone, you’re missing out. The magic happens when you connect it to your whole tech stack and automate the repetitive stuff.
I use Latenode since it connects directly to Figma’s API and handles complex workflows without needing an engineering team to maintain custom scripts. Actually makes the AI features practical for real projects.
I work in product design at a mid-size company, and Dev Mode’s server integration has completely changed how we hand off to engineers. We used to waste hours in meetings explaining spacing and component behavior. Now the technical specs generate automatically and they’re way more accurate. The AI design generation though? Pretty gimmicky for real work. I’ve tested it on client projects and the quality’s all over the place. Sometimes it’s decent, other times it’s completely off-brand with weird proportions. It’s fine for quick internal prototypes, but I’d never use it for customer work without heavy edits. As for competing with Adobe - Figma’s collaborative edge is still untouchable. The AI features are nice, but their real strength is live collaboration and the plugin ecosystem. Adobe’s trying to catch up but their tools still feel clunky for teams.
The AI prompt-to-design feature’s been surprisingly useful for mockups and brainstorming. I mostly work on enterprise apps, and it really helps when I’m stuck starting new projects. The layouts definitely need work, but they give me solid foundations that’d take hours to build from scratch.
Figma’s still crushing Adobe XD on collaboration. Real-time editing plus these AI features create a workflow that desktop tools just can’t touch. The credit system’s annoying though - I burn through credits way faster than expected when exploring ideas, so now I’m more strategic about when to use AI.
Dev Mode improvements have made handoffs to development teams much smoother. The server integration cuts down on miscommunication with engineers, which was always a huge pain before.