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They Killed Figma (Again) and Why Code Won't Kill Your Creativity
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Addressing the 'Figma is dead' claims and arguing that code isn't a constraint on creativity—it's just another medium for exploration.
Go back They Killed Figma (Again) and Why Code Won't Kill Your Creativity December 2025 Another day, another feature launch that makes people go crazy declaring the death of Figma . I look closer and it's a WYSIWYG editor for your codebase. I look the other way and it's people arguing that designing in code creates constraints that will kill your creativity. Is Figma really dead? Creativity doesn't care about the medium. It cares about exploration. There's this very cool tool called Unicorn Studio. I won't go into details, but basically it lets you easily create shaders (cool, effect-y things
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