Comment by drewbeck

The author wishes for a specific workflow that is neither determined nor prevented by Figma. Our tools shape us, yes, but it’s the organization and leadership that actually has the power to create the workflow the author wants, not the tool.

There’s no tool that designers can use that will force organizations to adopt this preferred workflow.

The tools shape us, undeniably, but the agency lies with us. Blaming the tool misses the true story of who has the power to make the world you want.

And as a designer who has to contend with a design system and building consistent UI … this vision of sketch→code→ iterate is beautiful but does not work at scale. Is every feature meant to be a greenfield new idea maximizing my creativity? No. That’s not the job. The job is to create consistent elegant interfaces, and reusing components and tokens and utilizing auto layout is absolutely critical to ensure this. (Okay, I did it before Figma but it took 5x as long and was very difficult to mantain!)