For me it's about testing new technology, and I consider Figma's autolayout new technology. I think by doing things in a design app you experiment with other things you wouldn't necessarily do in the browser. For example colors, fonts... compared to the '18 and '17 version I believe this one looks better.
I do have to say I am quite fast with Figma as my day to day work is being a UI designer.
Re:How I made a website with Svelte
by factsaresacred on Saturday December 28, 2019 @11:09AM
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Cool, having looked at your design file I can see the benefit of having everything laid out - allows you to easily explore different ideas.
Figma seems like a tool worth learning, will have to dig in some more.
Unless you're using something else than a regular text editor/IDE for editing CSS, using UI controls to experiment with how things look would normally be faster for many. I'm a programmer myself, but having UI widgets I can drag or interact with is way faster than writing numbers and attributes, when it comes to coming up with a design.
Although, this assumes you're in the initial design phase of something, not the typical designer->developer handoff where you basically just want to implement a specification someone handed you.
> "In 2018 I went content-first, but this year I went design-first. I more or less created all of the designs first, then implemented them as opposed to last year."
For somebody who believes that it's as fast to simply design in css, was this step worth it?