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Figma is getting in its own way. Figma keep trying to bring more of the work into Figma, when what they should be doing is helping designers get out of the Figma bubble and work more directly with code. They are still anchored to their original success, the vector canvas. This is perfect case study of the innovator's dilemma.
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Imagine a world where you could copy/paste websites into editable Figma layers (jk you don’t have to imagine you can do this now with our Chrome extension)
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Youssef • Webflow Designer & Developer retweeted
Incredible! Posted a shot of my pricing page and @YS recorded a ~7-minute video tearing it down. SO much to steal. If you're building a software product, you need to watch this.
Replying to @euboid
Here you go!
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Solution: Don't design websites in Figma. Figma is unsuitable for web design.
Ever wondered why text looks perfect in Figma but heavier once it ships to the web? The typeface you chose isn't neccessarily the problem. Browsers render text differently by default, often making it appear heavier, blurry or muddier than intended. You can fix this with just 4 CSS lines: * { -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale; } Full breakdown in the comments
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This is a nice quality of life update from @Webflow. Upload the image once, and it resizes it automatically. Btw, @leinwand can you make it so we can upload images of any size by removing the 4MB limit (it's a bit outdated) and add an option to compress images automatically on upload? That would speed things up for everyone. Marketing teams would love that.
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"Adding schema markup had zero meaningful impact on AI citations." I knew it. I've explained this to clients so many times. If schema works, then AI fails. The point of AI, and crawling in general, is to find the best information. Not the prettiest.
In the last 6 months at @Ahrefs, we analyzed over 1 billion data points across 14 studies. Here's what we learned about AI search optimization: 1) "Best X" blog listicles are the single most prominent content format cited by AI chatbots. They make up 43.8% of all page types cited by ChatGPT specifically. 2) 67% of ChatGPT's top 1,000 citations come from sources marketers can't influence: Wikipedia (29.7%), homepages (23.8%), app stores (6.6%). Only 32.3% are influenceable content like educational pages, reviews, news, and blog posts. 3) 28.3% of ChatGPT's most-cited pages have zero Google organic visibility. These pages get cited repeatedly by ChatGPT despite not ranking in Google at all. A completely separate discovery layer. 4) ChatGPT only cites about 50% of the URLs it retrieves. It fetches dozens of pages per query but uses half as background context without attribution. This means that being retrieved and being cited are very different things. 5) Adding schema markup had zero meaningful impact on AI citations. AI Overviews actually dipped −4.6%, while AI Mode ( 2.4%) and ChatGPT ( 2.2%) showed changes indistinguishable from zero. 6) YouTube mentions have the highest correlation (0.737) with AI brand visibility out of all the factors we studied (including all the conventional SEO metrics like backlinks, page count, DR, etc). This held true for both Google-owned and OpenAI products. 7) AI Overviews reduce clicks to the #1 result by 58%. That’s up from 34.5% just 10 months earlier. The trend is accelerating. 8) 99.9% of AI Overviews appear on informational intent queries. Transactional, navigational, and local searches are almost entirely AIO-free. Shopping triggers AIOs just 3.2% of the time. 9) For a given search query, Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews reach the same conclusions 86% of the time — but cite almost entirely different sources (only 13.7% citation overlap). 10) AI Overviews change every 2.15 days on average, with 70% of content differing between consecutive observations. But semantic similarity stays at 0.95. The words, sources, and entities constantly shuffle, but the actual meaning barely moves.
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It is interesting that LLMs became very powerful in 2022, right after the work-from-home era, when everyone realized they needed a web presence. Media companies massively increased output, schools put all their coursework online, products, food, everything went online. So overall, more new and niche content was being published everywhere across the web. This must have been a goldrush for training data.
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Well this is interesting..
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I remember this day in 2013. It changed the entire course of my career.
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Figma fundamentally misunderstands the web, and this is why it's a bad tool for web design.
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it’s actually annoying that Figma doesn’t use the same naming conventions as web. Like hug should be fit. Simple as that.
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I remember, about 20 years ago now, a photographer sending me a cease and desist (he also sent a letter of complaint to my faculty) because he could not fathom that his ideas were just not that original and that I, a student, also had the same idea. Nothing could convince him. The irony of it all was that we had both made a pastiche of a Rene Magritte painting, so our ideas were already derivative. I reached out to him about 15 years later to see if he would believe me now that so much time had passed; and no, he was just as bitter and stubborn about it. Quite sad really.
Recently came across a logo designed for a major national space agency project, and was honestly surprised by how closely it resembles a logo/design I had created and publicly shared quite a long time ago. As designers, originality and creative integrity matter deeply. I’ve reached out privately with evidence and timestamps, and I’m hoping this gets addressed professionally.
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I've never once heard a user of an app or visitor to a website say: "I really wish this had more animations."
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Do not animate hover states for list items, feels clunky 🙏 pls fix it @benjitaylor @raunofreiberg accurately replied 'noooo'
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This is what years of Figma has done to designers. It detached them from the medium in which their work is actually experienced, and for many, this means they are totally illiterate when it comes to putting their ideas into production. This also limits the quality of their work, as they do not correctly understand the problem-space, but that's a whole other conversation.
Blows my mind how many designers can't even do the bare minimum when applying for roles: — Expired website URLs — Sending through default vercel/loveable links for their portfolio — Websites that aren't mobile responsive — Resumes typeset in Calibri
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Youssef • Webflow Designer & Developer retweeted
Nothing is more valuable for a designer than receiving an absolutely brutal, honest and constructive teardown of your work; and to learn its not a personal attack but a lesson in learning to see your work from another angle.
just going hater mode today. 99% of people have never gotten real critique in their lives. have you ever had someone tear apart an essay you wrote? or a piece of art you lost sleep over for a month? too many soft creatives. you grow when your work gets a close reading. you do not get that from twitter demo hype.
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I respect this far more than anything anyone could ever do in Figma. Keep it up.
decided to do my UX design today on a little easel
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Remember "should designers code?" LOL
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i’m hiring one design engineer, remote dm me if figma is your natural habitat
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The industry is waking up. I remember I was called a gatekeeper for telling designers to learn to code. Lol. Encouraging new skills is the opposite of gatekeeping.
Designers, start coding. Really. I mean it. Taste is the hardest part and you already have it. AI handles the syntax. You can be so much more powerful.
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The game theory of designing in code is that it mitigates design-dev bit loss, accelerates understanding, and protects against bad decisions. It is superior, clearly.
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I've noticed something... In recent years, there has been an increase in grammatical errors in the copywriting I have received for websites and even on the printed packaging of goods I purchase. I am not entirely sure, but I have a theory that this is the result of outsourcing certain knowledge-work roles to cheaper offshore workers who are not native English speakers.
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