MagicalHamster
MagicalHamster

Designers/Builders - Thoughts on the Design + Develop announcement from Figma yesterday?

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GroovyNoodle
GroovyNoodle

It'll eventually end up as a no code platform, but cleaner, similar to Framer. My hypothesis would be that this will be better than Webflow, bubble and other clunky no code apps, since it's faster, cleaner and can support collaborative editing and rendering.

But then again, a lot of work would be required to build a Figma quality no code builder app.

GoofyDonut
GoofyDonut

Good for landing pages, email and the likes.

Still not there yet for large and complex applications. Code export has been around for years, it’s quite hard to integrate design with codebase - static vs dynamic. But well for starting up, simple components, it should work I suppose

GoofyDonut
GoofyDonut

Prototyping is better now, perhaps like XD or sketch

MagicalHamster
MagicalHamster

Asking because it seemed like a significant update. But not personally a designer/builder/developer hence curious to know reactions.

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