Figma Make recently added the ability to bring generated ideas into Figma Design files. This is great.
I started developing a workflow where I:
- get Make to generate the initial concept (with linked design system)
- Copy the generated frames into a Design file to tweak (as this is quicker than crafting a bunch of prompts) - and create components.
- Copy the updated designs back into Make and continue adjusting.
- Repeat steps 2 and 3
This feels like a good hybrid approach to working alongside the AI to craft interfaces.
Between steps 2 and 3 - on the second iteration - where I have pasted the updated version into Make, made more changes and then copied that version back into Design - all the component instances have been converted into frames.
When working on long term projects I want to be able to do some of the work in Design and some in Make - right now I have to chose one or the other due to this limitation.