A designer's take on Claude Design (Anthropic's new design tool) and what it signals for the future of design tooling. The core argument: Figma's decade of proprietary primitives and locked-down formats excluded it from LLM training data, leaving it stranded in a pre-agentic world. As code becomes the natural source of truth, design tools will fork into two shapes — code-native tools like Claude Design (which integrates directly with Claude Code) and pure freeform exploration environments. Figma Make is dismissed as a tool for those already locked into the Figma ecosystem. The post predicts Figma is approaching its own 'Sketch moment.'
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