Mentions personal use of Figma.

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…Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So I know there's this big debate on Twitter, just like, is code the future of design? Do we need many more, do we need a design? What's your sense? Figma's still important? I mean, as a former Figmate, maybe I'm biased in that way, but I think there is still ... When I use Figma, I'm like, "Yes, this is what I should be using." And it still fills a very good gap for me. I think a lot of that is actually just, one is exploring a lot of different options. I think that's a really important part of the design process, to be able to just think about 8 to 10 different ways to do something. I think the best design happens when you're able to just throw a bunch of ideas at the wall, and curate and push yourself to come up with a bunch of these different directions. Right now, coding, or right now working with some of these coding tools doesn't lend itself super well to that, because it's super linear, you get super invested in one direction and you just iterate with Claude on them, for example. So Figma has been really great at just exploring all these different options, and I think it's still going to exist that way to some extent. And then I think there's really fine visual and interaction details that are also really great to be able to just try out in Figma. Again, it's a lot of different directions, but it's micro directions. It's being able to think about different typography or styles. Having those in a canvas where you can just explore that specifically is still so, so helpful, and is not something that I always want to go directly to code in. It's interesting you still use an IDE, because in engineering, it's clearly shifting to command lines, agents, IDEs are kind of moving to not be cool anymore. And it makes a lot of sense. You just want to edit some CSS things, some color stuff. And so I could see why not just telling the agent, "Hey, just come on, change this one hex value." Just changing it is so much easier.…

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