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juliusceasaryesterday at 9:45 PM7 repliesview on HN

Most of the times people just want a bike or a car. Not everybody needs an airplane. This is going to hit Figma very hard.


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kibwenyesterday at 9:59 PM

I admit I'm having a visceral reaction to this analogy. A bicycle is a sophisticated product whose form is almost pure function. Despite being apparenty simple, almost no regular person can draw even a reasonable facsimile of a bicycle from memory ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0_vXZ-3LFU ). Which is to say, for actually designing a functioning bicycle, the devil is in the details, and details are exactly where vibecoded apps fall down. Our lower bound for this analogy should instead be the downhill go-kart cobbled together from scrap wood you found in the dumpster.

manyatomsyesterday at 9:56 PM

> Most of the times people just want a bike

with a pelican on it

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chatmastayesterday at 10:15 PM

Figma has been in trouble for a while. All the designers at my company switched to Cursor nearly a year ago. They made live mockups that don’t even need a spec to implement, because the expected behavior is already captured in the prototype. Claude Design makes it just marginally easier.

malfistyesterday at 9:49 PM

The people that want just a bicycle wasn't going to buy figma

andaitoday at 1:38 AM

Are those people using Figma?

mritsyesterday at 11:02 PM

Not to mention all the people hiring UX just because they don't want to deal with it themselves, not because they need something that requires a lot of skill.

dyauspitrtoday at 12:10 AM

Stitch has been around for a few months from hole and it does a better job than this. I bet designers are in the honeymoon phase of people don’t know this exists and this does my whole job phase.