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PM here for Make Designs. > If it doesn't work with MY design system (as opposed to curated design systems like MUI or Bootstrap or whatever) then it's useless

by jjcm 2y ago

PM here for Make Designs. > If it doesn't work with MY design system (as opposed to curated design systems like MUI or Bootstrap or whatever) then it's useless You hit the nail on the head. This our #1 focus for this team moving forward. If you noticed in the keynote, Dylan highlighted Chen Chen and the Google Material team, both of whom created generators for their design systems. They work, but they were hard to make as the tooling to create these isn't polished or ready yet. It's something we're actively thinking about and improving in order to make this useful for those with existing design systems.

tsunamifury 2y ago
The problem here isn’t that it uses your pattern library or not. The issue is it will spit out static designs that look right but aren’t actually based on either user goals or business goals of the product. It’s just a design that looks right. It’s missing the entire workflow design part and in fact covers over the need for it. I see it leading a lot of less experienced product programs astray.
- gffrd 2y ago
  So … how most companies are already designing experiences?
  - tsunamifury 2y ago
    Touché
- LauraMedia 2y ago
  I think what would also be important is to select an existing frame and create additional views that fit the existing frame, that would definitely help creating a proper workflow
choppaface 2y ago
Are you really shooting to generate something full-fidelity? Or rather provide lower fidelity but empower the user to spitball and maybe test light interaction? And if it is full fidelity, how do you ensure users actually own the copyright at the end of the day?
LauraMedia 2y ago
I do think the number one points I've had with the feature were: - I'd like to create tablet sized apps, or desktop/web sized apps (and not landing pages) - It would be awesome if I could provide mock JSON data and let Figma design a rough concept of how to align that data I think with those two things, It can be a really great "first draft", to be remade by me properly.

by jjcm 2y ago

tsunamifury 2y ago

The problem here isn’t that it uses your pattern library or not. The issue is it will spit out static designs that look right but aren’t actually based on either user goals or business goals of the product. It’s just a design that looks right. It’s missing the entire workflow design part and in fact covers over the need for it. I see it leading a lot of less experienced product programs astray.

gffrd 2y ago
So … how most companies are already designing experiences?
- tsunamifury 2y ago
  Touché
LauraMedia 2y ago
I think what would also be important is to select an existing frame and create additional views that fit the existing frame, that would definitely help creating a proper workflow

choppaface 2y ago

Are you really shooting to generate something full-fidelity? Or rather provide lower fidelity but empower the user to spitball and maybe test light interaction? And if it is full fidelity, how do you ensure users actually own the copyright at the end of the day?

LauraMedia 2y ago

I do think the number one points I've had with the feature were: - I'd like to create tablet sized apps, or desktop/web sized apps (and not landing pages) - It would be awesome if I could provide mock JSON data and let Figma design a rough concept of how to align that data I think with those two things, It can be a really great "first draft", to be remade by me properly.