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Re:Figma Alternatives by rosywoozlechan on Friday September 16, 2022 @02:27PM (#32870120)
> CSS is the language of design, yet for some reason every design tool completely ignores it.

Maybe for web development, but people use Figma for mobile app designs too and those do not for the most part use CSS as the language for design.

Re:Figma Alternatives by The5thElephant on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @01:07PM (#32928097)
But CSS would still get you better prototypes that imitate native designs than anything Figma can provide. All the top requested features for Figma are CSS-like features even coming from designers who don't know CSS. CSS has solved many of the most difficult layout and design problems, why reinvent the wheel?

I work on native app designs and other non-product design work in Figma and having the features CSS would provide out of the box would save me literally dozens of hours a month.

Re:Figma Alternatives by Existenceblinks on Friday September 23, 2022 @10:53PM (#32959351)
Yeah, auto-layout (flex) was weird at first but more and more designers get used to it, it becomes a preferable foundation for layout. I think they will love CSS eventually, it's just the teaching/learning process that can get them there. At least currently Figma hype gets them `display: flex`.