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Figma

A shared canvas for designing and prototyping digital products.

Design & creativity
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2026-08-13Latest mention

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@GeneralMaximus
I use Ableton, Figma, and Emacs regularly.
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@filup
We have designers producing Figma and we use Figma MCP to convert that to web pages.
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@sapneshnaik
For example, I use this: ``` Build a Nango sync that stores Figma projects.
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@ishandeveloper
The reason we're browser-based is the same reason I love Figma and Google Docs: no install, no waiting, just open and start.
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Typically I use Figma to create those screenshots, then let the agent go wild as long as it manages to get the right results.
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@pas
In practice people are more than willing to wait for an SPA to load if it works well (figma, gmail/gdocs, discord's browser version used to be pretty good too, and then of course there are the horrible counter-examples AWS/GCP control panels, and so on).
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@fastThinking
I’ve been using Figma for a while, and true, it’s powerful.
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@lasgawe
I use their Figma plugin almost every day.
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@koakuma-chan
The only reason I use Figma MCP is that my company uses Figma and has a dedicated Figma person.
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@deaux
> The only reason I use Figma MCP is that my company uses Figma and has a dedicated Figma person.
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@koakuma-chan
I use Figma MCP and Cursor and it can implement the design near perfectly on first try.
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@msephton
I love Penpot (Figma is OK
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