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Poor Figma, you've lost you're way....

  • June 25, 2026
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Matthew Atkinson

Almost one year since your IPO and my dear Figma, you have lost your way.

Remember when you used to be about us, the designer? Remember when you cared?!

Now you are just another tech company shoving crappy useless AI add-ons down are throats, along with adding other bloated and unnecessary features (like, now you do animation?! 😂) that we don’t need.

A recent trial of your AI Agents did nothing more than duplicate my work instead of updating anything after 5-10mins of playing around. If I wanted to just duplicate my work I could have done that already in 2secs with the copy/paste command that has served me for over 20+ years. Laughable.

 

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Wolleschmolle

I think Figma's current roadmap is largely due to the disruption caused by AI. Still, I can understand your criticism. Before throwing fancy, eye-catching tools at customers, they should first get the basics right. After all, we're still primarily talking about a prototyping tool here, right?

For example, I haven’t been able to show my clients responsive overlays in prototypes for nearly a decade. It’s simply not possible. Overlays—that is, dialogs—are essential in web applications. The only way to do this is through hacks that are barely maintainable. Or real scrollbars that you can style? They don’t exist. At least you can now generate a table plugin yourself, since that isn’t available out of the box either.


For many areas, Figma is now unsuitable when it comes to data-intensive applications that need to be accessible. I simply don't need 90% of those fancy tools because there are apps that need to have a clean UX and UI first before you can add the bells and whistles. That's fine for landing pages and a quick fix. But Claude Design can do that better now, too.

Hey Figma, when are you going to do your homework?

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