Comment by iamcalledrob

As someone who's worked in this field and seen it evolve for 20 years, this article really captures how I feel too about how tools shape your mindset and what you create.

The tool you have at hand has a huge impact on how you think. "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" and all that.

Nothing shuts down a feeling of exploration and creativity more than loading up a Figma file made up of components assembled with auto-layout. Sometimes you just want to play, rules be damned. That's when the magic happens.

This is not a dig at Figma. It just happens to be that Figma has become huge, and so the opinion its UI has about what you should be designing has a huge impact on the industry.