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Why use that at all when you can use Claude and go straight to prototyping in a dev environment, build out pages with React components that leverage Material UI kits in Figma, have a complex prototype built in less than an hour - multiple pages if needed - fully responsive, tokenized, and able to be rebuilt in Figma whenever you want full Material components (MUI or Material 3) since it can literally create that once you've built the functional prototype?
That's what I'm up to lately. I'm writing an article and tutorial to share online soon. I make no claim to have been the one to figure this out, but through posts about other people's tinkering that focuses 100% on just creating designs in Figma from Claude or Make or whatever, I've spent a ton of time with Claude to figure out a for more complex and useful approach.
It's not for everyone. It's not for the average UX designer who doesn't code, gets intimidate by Terminal, doesn't use VS Code, doesn't understand development, frameworks, can't set up a local host, etc. I'm hoping to make it a bit more accessible to that kind of designer.
I just wrapped up an 18 month contract this week, looking for a new job, and hoping this kind of thing for me, as a mix of designer, strategist, and technologist, is a big advantage for me. I've been making stuff with BPT and Claude for around 2 years now, from my art applications, to product prototypes for things I'm hoping to get off the ground. I'm finding that the key thing to doing it well is knowing how to prompt like you're writing a functional spec. I used to write those years ago - 90-120 page specs for client sites. I don't know if a lot of UX designers do that these days; it's more of a BA task from my enterprise experience.
Anyhow, anyone interesting in knowing more about this?
- Yes? All this seems so wild and untouchable to me.monospaced
- I'm interested in this, I work in Figma as I'm a control freak and I find it quicker to flow out and test ideas. I use claude a lot as part of research and planslappy