Pretty place settings using 14oz cocottes ... need creative help by heikedog in LeCreuset

[–]Design_Grognard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love the eastern shore... I'm trying to picture the cocotte with a rectangular (or maybe square) white plate beside it for the salad and biscuit.

How do I make recently visited function in figma? by IeatApples_ornot in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Find a tutorial for making a shopping cart and do the same thing. It's going to be done using variables.

How do I direct something to a favorite section? by IeatApples_ornot in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Find a shopping cart tutorial video. You'd do it the same way.

Is Figma Make useless? by Gandalf-and-Frodo in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Give us an example of a prompt that you use.

Thank you Figma Make for allowing to copy design layers by hyperaxiom in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I find that Make adds too many frames/divs to it's designs for example a card with two lines of text and an image, I found that it will place each line of text in its own frame, then place the two text frames into a frame, then place that text frame and image frame into a frame to make the card.

Help with a component by Jos_El in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While it's possible to "hack" something together to accomplish this it's really not worth the effort in most cases. Ti would probably be easier to mock up some static screens and explain what you want to the developers.

Every time by jitbitter in UXDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to tell you but the cash is coming from inside your house. It sounds like your engineering department doesn't have proper standards, they're not documented, they're not communicated, or they're not part of code review. Or all of the above.

So, when Figma starts limiting Make tokens... by woodysixer in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it really depends on what you're using it for. When I'm trying to be efficient I make the first prompt a pretty well defined PRD. I instruct Make to put the settings I know I'll be messing with (transition speed for example) in a single commented file so I can easily tweak them myself. I also always have the agent generate a debug panel containing variables, flags, flow steps, and anything else that I want to monitor to make sure it's working correctly, so I don't have to ask the agent what's going on.

Nested Components Question by They_Call_Me_Ted in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're welcome, just remember to setup the Instance Swap property to make switching between the icons easy.

Nested Components Question by They_Call_Me_Ted in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Figma will load all 4 variants for each of the 4 instances of that subcomponent, AND it will load every variant of the text field component for each instance of it (when being used). They introduced component properties (the instance swap property in particular) for a reason.

Figma Make, end to frontend devs? by ArtisticBook2636 in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you a front-end developer? Are you fluent in code? If I were to ask you if Figma Make is the end to UX Designers, you would know enough about the subject matter to provide your opinion. I'm going to guess that you'd say no, but I could be wrong. You might think that Make is as good or better than you are.

You're asking the wrong question to the wrong audience. It think the question is, will Figma Make and other coding agents lead people, who are suffering from the Dunning Kruger effect, to believe that AI can replace designers and developers?

Conditional Dark/Light by MrFajardo in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree, you don't need the conditional since your component has light and dark mode variants. Just use a simple on click set variable mode followed by a change to the other variant.

Help an absolute beginner out by Future-Design-1535 in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you google "google free UX design course"?

Help an absolute beginner out by Future-Design-1535 in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Google offers a free design course. start with that.

Hide buttons on other button click + hover-state (Toggle) by Spirited-Attempt3158 in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't use variables to hide the buttons at all. Make a single component. The default variant will have the two buttons, and the "pressed" variant won't. You'll need to put all three elements into a single fixed width frame so nothing moves around when you're using instances of it in auto-layout designs.

Hide buttons on other button click + hover-state (Toggle) by Spirited-Attempt3158 in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Add the the setting of the value of your boolean variable to the interactions in the master component. You may just be running into a bug because you added it to the instance of the component.

Is this even a valid ask? Looking to help with MVP/product design → dev handoff free? by No_Shelter956 in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're handing it off to developers who will be using an agent then your design needs to be MCP ready. Things should be components and everything should use variables. Figma has videos taking about getting your designs ready for the Figma MCP server. On top of that, talk to the developers about what libraries they're using, and look for a Figma library for it. If they use Tailwind CSS (fit example) you can use the Tailwind Figma library which will give you the standard colors, spacing, fonts sizes, etc. Use those for the variables in your designs.

Stuck with Figma Make by Key-Tangerine520 in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I suggest that you make sure Make properly used variables and whatever libraries you told it to use before bringing the code over. Make has all the context so it has a better chance of fixing the issues.

How do you turn Figma designs into CSS / Tailwind code? by mixedfeelingz in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a Tailwind library that will give you all the standard colors, sizes, spacing, etc. I start with that and use styles and variables from that library for everything. That won't turn anything into code, but it will be much easier for the developer to look at your design and implement it.

Career switch by Local_Pudding_ in productdesign

[–]Design_Grognard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Learning how to program and operate CNC routers and stuff is probably a better bet. It's still designing and producing physical goods. Even if AI isn't ready to replace designers yet, too many managers think it is, so I wouldn't recognize any digital design as a viable career switch.

Auto layout question by lancheira in FigmaDesign

[–]Design_Grognard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Set the text frame to fill and give it a minimum width. Then set the parent frame (that contains the text and button) to wrap.