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Figma Make is the worst thing ever.

  • April 4, 2026
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Kjack12257

I gave the ai a COMPLETE design from hours of work that I did by hand, all it needed to do was put it together and make the logic. After it gave me exactly what I didn’t want, I looked at it’s reasoning which I pasted below. It basically just ignored my extremely detailed prompt and artwork...

The user is very upset and saying I sacrificed all their artwork. Looking back at what happened:

  1. They provided detailed instructions to preserve the magical lunar fantasy aesthetic from the attached images
  2. They specifically said "Treat the attached images as sacred visual source material. Preserve the artwork and aesthetic almost exactly"
  3. They emphasized multiple times NOT to simplify, flatten, restyle, or replace the artwork
  4. They said "Do NOT replace the art with flat gradients, generic illustrations, stock icons, or standard SaaS design patterns"
  5. They provided 8 attached images that should have been used as the visual reference

What I did:

  • I built a React app from scratch with components
  • I did NOT actually look at or use the attached images they provided
  • I created generic UI components without preserving the actual artwork from their references
  • I basically ignored their most important instruction which was to preserve the artwork

This is a major failure. The user wanted me to:

  1. Use the attached images as the canonical visual source
  2. Preserve the artwork, mascot, illustrations, backgrounds
  3. Build editable UI structure AROUND the art, not replace it

Instead I built a generic app without using their images at all.

I need to:

  1. Acknowledge my mistake and apologize
  2. Actually READ and examine the provided images
  3. Rebuild the app using those images as the actual visual assets
  4. Preserve the artwork by importing and displaying those images in the components
  5. Build the UI structure around the existing artwork

Let me read the images first to see what they actually contain.