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You wouldn’t really be able to tell. Figma is often just a tool for working out designs and building up a design system for your site. That later gets translate

You wouldn’t really be able to tell. Figma is often just a tool for working out designs and building up a design system for your site. That later gets translated to your front end by your devs. Figma itself isn’t a styling library like tailwind, etc.

croes 2y ago
But are the designs lean or bloated. If Figma helps building lean designs it's good otherwise not. Designers tend to put too much useless parts into sites, like unnecessary transparencies and animations.
- gryn 2y ago
  that's like asking if a pen or keyboard lead to bloat. depends on who's using them.
  - croes 2y ago
    More like if AI leads to spam or if guns kill people. The latter one is harder if you only have a knife instead of an assault rifle.
    - alpinisme 2y ago
      No it’s more like, does vscode lead to better code than jetbrains? Figma doesn’t really provide meaningful constraints on a design that would let you identify it as Figma sourced, much as you won’t be able to tell whether a site was written in a particular IDE.
    - spiderice 2y ago
      You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what Figma is. Your question would be better answered if you took some time to look at figma, rather than looking at the designs people create with figma.
      - croes 2y ago
        So tell me why the UX in the web gets worse if all these tools and framework make the DX better? On mobile I have a limited data plan and the speed isn't always the best and on many pages I have to wait because beside the ads I have to download 3, 5, 10 or even more MB of data just to get pages where button, links and headline are undistinguishable because of recent design decisions. Seems to me these tools are worthless in the end, if you are a user. After bootstrap it went pretty much downhill.
- ENGNR 2y ago
  It's good with SVGs, themes, grouping elements into reusable components from your design system, and doing an art board per screen together so you can get an idea of your workflow through the app. Not great at animations, not great at fully exploding all of the app state. Overall pretty good middle ground for designers and devs to interact.
- cal85 2y ago
  If a designer uses ‘unnecessary’ transparencies and animations just because a design tool makes those things easy, that is not a problem with the design tool.
  - croes 2y ago
    If a tool makes something bad easy it is partially responsible.

croes 2y ago

But are the designs lean or bloated. If Figma helps building lean designs it's good otherwise not. Designers tend to put too much useless parts into sites, like unnecessary transparencies and animations.

gryn 2y ago
that's like asking if a pen or keyboard lead to bloat. depends on who's using them.
- croes 2y ago
  More like if AI leads to spam or if guns kill people. The latter one is harder if you only have a knife instead of an assault rifle.
  - alpinisme 2y ago
    No it’s more like, does vscode lead to better code than jetbrains? Figma doesn’t really provide meaningful constraints on a design that would let you identify it as Figma sourced, much as you won’t be able to tell whether a site was written in a particular IDE.
  - spiderice 2y ago
    You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what Figma is. Your question would be better answered if you took some time to look at figma, rather than looking at the designs people create with figma.
    - croes 2y ago
      So tell me why the UX in the web gets worse if all these tools and framework make the DX better? On mobile I have a limited data plan and the speed isn't always the best and on many pages I have to wait because beside the ads I have to download 3, 5, 10 or even more MB of data just to get pages where button, links and headline are undistinguishable because of recent design decisions. Seems to me these tools are worthless in the end, if you are a user. After bootstrap it went pretty much downhill.
ENGNR 2y ago
It's good with SVGs, themes, grouping elements into reusable components from your design system, and doing an art board per screen together so you can get an idea of your workflow through the app. Not great at animations, not great at fully exploding all of the app state. Overall pretty good middle ground for designers and devs to interact.
cal85 2y ago
If a designer uses ‘unnecessary’ transparencies and animations just because a design tool makes those things easy, that is not a problem with the design tool.
- croes 2y ago
  If a tool makes something bad easy it is partially responsible.