Some might say I'm being too harsh on Figma but I actually think I'm not being harsh *enough.*
For better or worse, Figma is the industry-default design tool. When they select their priorities, it communicates to designers *what they should consider important* both as a role model and as a tool.
@spavel.bsky.socialWe're time traveling back to 1997 today, when WISYWIG editors were all the rage. In the decades since, web technology has clawed its way from that primitive state with semantic HTML that made accessibility possible and let content drive appearance rather than vice-versa.
Then Figma blew it all up.
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The dream of being able to generate working websites will remain out of reach until UX redefines its practice around semantic structure rather than layouts.
