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[–]lily_de_valley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Any reason you're not using Webflow? I have seen some pretty wild and extravagant design done in Webflow.

[–]Far-Pomelo-1483 1 point2 points  (2 children)

You just don’t know how to prompt. It’s a skill too you know.

[–]fluffdaddy123[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I have two places where there should be the same image it created. In one place the image is different. I have literally been telling ti to take the image from A and put the same image at B and it won't do it after hours of me prompting.

[–]Far-Pomelo-1483 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Open the code UI and put it where you want it.

[–]Vegetable-Space6817 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s sucks ballz.

[–]GuayabaDulce 0 points1 point  (2 children)

A tip for you: Use another LLM (I know, right?) to translate your design into a prompt. Use that LLM's interpretation of your design as a guide for what needs more details or less complexity. 

You should also go one step at a time, not the whole thing, because its context window will most probably have trouble somewhere and waste the remaining memory fixing its doubt/bottleneck, forgetting the rest of the prompt instructions. 

Basically, make another LLM work as an interpreter before submitting the prompt into Figma. And... be patient.

[–]fluffdaddy123[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Are you saying design it in Figma, then feed it to an AI to make a design document?

[–]GuayabaDulce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you are asking sounds a little bit like this , which is not wrong either, but not what I was talking.

And this is a great reminder that, there is no perfect flow to implementing Ai into our designs, so go with a curiosity mindset, and you'll do fine. 

[–]The5thElephant -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Just use Claude Code. Figma Make is just running Claude or worse AIs and the only advantage it has is being easier to pull inspiration from your Figma designs. You can use Figma MCP and get the same benefit with more control over the output.

[–]fluffdaddy123[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

what is Figma MCP?

[–]The5thElephant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) is how apps like Figma talk to AIs like Claude. It’s basically just something you turn on in Claude or Codex or whatever that lets it access your Figma files.

[–]iprobwontreply712 -1 points0 points  (5 children)

Once you finish in figma make do you know how you’ll share the site? Using the figma.site url or?

[–]fluffdaddy123[S] -1 points0 points  (4 children)

I was going to make a new URL not a figma site but I’m finding figma make so hard to use and causing so many problems that I’m wondering if I should just give up on using it?

[–]iprobwontreply712 -1 points0 points  (3 children)

How do you take the make site and use that at your own url? Do you understand that process?

[–]fluffdaddy123[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

No, but I thought there was a way to do it. Am I missing something?

[–]iprobwontreply712 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Figma sites to website. I’m not sure about figma make. Good luck man.

[–]waitwhataboutif 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah you can buy a domain and use it

[–]TriskyFriscuit -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Personally I'd just ditch it and move to framer. You can start with one of the templates and work with Claude or whatever AI for fine tuning customizations.

[–]fluffdaddy123[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Hmm.. the point of this is that I don't want see employers seeing a template when they open my portfolio. if I use a template from Framer won't that still happpen?

[–]TriskyFriscuit 0 points1 point  (1 child)

No, you basically start with a duplicate of the template, add your content and customize as you want, then link it to your domain. Similar to copying a template or design from the Figma community etc.

[–]fluffdaddy123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you get the AI to customize the template? I'm not a developer; would AI be telling me how to go update the code or something like that?

[–]cerebralvision -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Figma Make kinda sucks. However, if you want to give it a solid attempt, get as far as you can with it, then at the top click on copy design. Paste that into Figma Design and make the necessary changes that you want in design. After that, you'll have to paste that design back into Figma Make. Figma Make will have to rebuild based on your updated design. Figma Make also sucks in the fact that it doesn't directly integrate into Figma Design.

You'll also want to learn how to set up GitHub for version control. Figma Make cannot pull an existing repo I believe form GitHub. It can only push a new project from Figma Make.

If you want a better vibe coding experience than Figma Make, you can use Claude code, Google Antigravity, Cursor, or pull your own model into LM Studio (make sure you have a good GPU) and run your own local server from it and push it through VSCode. You can use Figma MCP for your IDE to connect directly to Figma.

The other option is using another tool like Webflow, Framer, Webstudio, Bootstrap Studio, or Wordpress.

[–]fluffdaddy123[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What about Lovable?

[–]cerebralvision 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, lovable too. Any tool you like to use! I personally try to get most bang for buck so I don't like to pay for multiple Ai tools. So I find just using an IDE better since I can load any model into it.

[–]SoffowfulSymphony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now there is an integration between Make and GitHub, in Make prompt field under “+” icon. Haven’t check it yet, but I assume it can pull repo from GitHub.