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AI in design, is it working for you?

  • December 15, 2025
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franck_bacquet

Hello,

I’m really excited about being able to use AI to edit our app screens. It would make important stakeholders able to work by their own.
However, for now, the results I get are far from being usable.
First, despite the announcement, I have no icon related to this… strange.
But it’s accessible through the cmd-k menu → “first draft” or “make a change”
My first “first draft” was a banger. With only a vague prompt, it created a neat design with nice architecture (better than those of most of designers I’ve worked with ;-) )
But as soon as I use the “make a change” menu, which is where the work begins, it’s really bad. 
Most of the time it doesn’t stick to the selection I gave and change something else. It doesn’t understand some basic command (selecting a menu, I just ask to add 2 entries… it renamed the others and change the colors...).
So, am I missing or mis-using something? Do you have similar experiences or much better?

Peace,
Franck

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jameswood32
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  • December 15, 2025

AI in design has been working surprisingly well for me, especially as a creative accelerator. It helps with rapid ideation, mood boards, layout variations, and even refining copy, which saves a lot of time in early stages. That said, it’s not a replacement for human judgment or taste. The best results come when AI is treated as a collaborator rather than a decision-maker. You still need to guide it with clear intent and polish the output yourself. Overall, it’s boosted productivity and experimentation, but the final design quality still depends on the designer’s vision and experience.

    franck_bacquet
    • franck_bacquet
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    • December 15, 2025

    I have this quite often too.
    Icon looks like an error but the message not so much… 
    It proposes to go back but nothing had changed… I’m confused. 

    franck_bacquet
    • franck_bacquet
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    • December 15, 2025

    AI in design has been working surprisingly well for me, especially as a creative accelerator. It helps with rapid ideation, mood boards, layout variations, and even refining copy, which saves a lot of time in early stages. That said, it’s not a replacement for human judgment or taste. The best results come when AI is treated as a collaborator rather than a decision-maker. You still need to guide it with clear intent and polish the output yourself. Overall, it’s boosted productivity and experimentation, but the final design quality still depends on the designer’s vision and experience.

    I’m happy to read that it can work. I’ll dig further. 

    Luke G.
    • Luke G.
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    • May 11, 2026

    Short answer: No. Long answer: No, but with expletives.

     

    Expletives because not only is it not very good, but theres actual useful tools in Figma that need some TLC but instead we get a useless AI bot.

    My most recent example: I’m trying to make a prototype work using booleans/conditional logic. For some reason, it keeps breaking. The prototype will work once, I’ll refresh, then it will be broken, refresh its fine, then broken again...You get the point. So I thought “hm, maybe finally a use case for Figma Make”. So I plug my issue into Make. After a few re-prompts and corrections it gets what Im asking for. I ask how I can migrate this into my existing design - it tells me thats not possible. Which leads me to 1 of 2 conclusions: Either A) It is possible and its hallucinating, in which case this thing isn’t fit for use, or B) Its right that you cant do that, which would make me question what the point of the thing is at all.

    Anyways. Since the component Im trying to work is visually fine, its just the interactions I have issue with, I ask it to tell me how it structured the interactions, it told me it does it in Javascript, not using Figmas native prototyping tools. Fair enough. I rephrase the prompt: “If you were to use Figmas native prototyping tools, how would you structure the interactions?” The answer it gave me was mind blowing:

    “Figma does not have conditional prototyping.”

    Well…Alright then. Odd. After a bit more back and forth it eventually asked me to solve the problem I went asked it solve in the first place. 

    I then consulted 2 other seasoned designers, then all 3 of us started scrolling through forums to solve my issue. The 2 words that repeatedly came up were: “Known bug.” - A phrase I’ve come across far too often when trying to troubleshoot issues on Figma. 

    TLDR: I’d like Figma to fix a few of these “known bugs” before trying to be yet another app shoving a useless AI bot down our throats.

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