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>>emilsj+(OP)
Hypothetically speaking, if all designers could code at the level of a Snr Front End Engineer, would Figma exist?

Just pretend that magically everybody knew how to code. Wouldn't designs just be done in the browser? No longer do you have to maintain these design artifacts post handover. There would be no unrealistic designs that do not consider the constraints of a browser window.

I know this is unrealistic but I often think about this.

>>jsncbt+s02
The frontend space is hilariously non-productive, while design really benefits from WYSIWG, or at least faster design-view iterations.

So unless some tools that were available decades ago with Visual Basic surfaces with drag’n’drop widgets, I doubt we can leave Figma and the like behind.

(Note: JavaFX does have a visual editor, not perfect but it was quite a great break from editing HTML files)