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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore 4 Notifications Chat Grok Bookmarks Creator Studio Premium 50% off Profile More Post Mapk @ot_mapka Article See new posts Conversation sam henri gold @samhenrigold Thoughts and Feelings around Claude Design 29 86 610 190K I tried Claude Design yesterday and I have a theory for how this whole thing shakes out. As product teams scaled and design needed to justify itself inside engineering orgs, it was pushed toward systemization — and Figma invented its own primitives to make that work: components, styles, variables, props, and so on. Some concepts are borrowed from programming, some aren’t, and the whole thing doesn’t neatly map onto anything. Guidance evolves, migrations pile up, and if you want to automate any of it you’re stuck with a handful of shoddy plugins. The beast is hairy enough that entire design roles now specialize in wrangling the system itself. There’s always been a tense push-pull betwe

@samhenrigold: Thoughts and Feelings around Claude Design I tried Claude Design yesterday and I have a theory for how this whole thing shakes out. As product teams scaled and design needed to justify itself inside engineering orgs, it was pushed toward systemization — and Figma invented its own primitives to make that work: components, styles, variables, props, and so on. Some concepts are borrowed from programming, some aren’t, and the whole thing doesn’t neatly map onto anything. Guidance evolves, migrations pile up, and if you want to automate any of it you’re stuck with a handful of shodd

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