Figma Retrospective on the "Make Designs" Feature
Figma introduced Make Designs, utilizing AI to generate UI drafts from design systems. Due to issues producing app-like designs, Figma paused the feature, addressing concerns and emphasizing feedback-driven improvements for designers.
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Figma recently announced the Make Designs feature, part of Figma AI, which aimed to generate UI design drafts based on design systems. However, after discovering that the feature was producing designs resembling existing apps due to an issue with the underlying design system, Figma temporarily disabled Make Designs. The feature uses AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Amazon’s Titan to create designs based on user prompts and hand-crafted design system components. Figma responded by removing problematic assets from the design system and halting the feature while improving quality assurance processes. The company emphasized that Make Designs is meant to serve as a starting point for designers and that feedback is crucial for further development. Figma remains committed to leveraging AI to enhance design workflows and aims to empower designers by streamlining component selection and configuration processes.
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5 commentsI assumed the AI was mimicking designs that it had been trained on, but this is saying they gave the AI a design system to work with. Their designers created a design system that was presumably templates for the AI to use. The design system they gave it was the source of the copycat components.
So they put Apple’s weather app components into the design system. Then when you prompt it for a weather app, it picked those back out of the design system.
This makes the problem even worse in some ways. This outcome was not only predictable, it was intentional (by at least some portion of the team).
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