> Sort of feel sorry for Figma in a way though, given all the "partnerships" (highlighting their MCPs) and case studies they've done with Anthropic and then they release this. I note there isn't a testimonial from them this time.

Those partnerships and the MCP were intentionally always watered down. It was purely a play for some cheap exposure without providing anything meaningful.

The very obvious thing for the MCP to expose, that everyone asks for, is to be able to create and edit Figma designs. You can't, likely because they're scared it will kill their product. It's one way: Figma->Agent, no Agent->Figma. They will come around to this one day, potentially when it's already too late. Will be interesting to see how long they wait.

I think you hit the nail on the head - I bet Adobe and Figma get most of their sold seats from people who don’t really need the full tool and are basically just using it as a viewer and to make very small adjustments or notes

>I strongly suspect a lot of their (A/M)RR was coming from extra seats for PMs, developers, etc

their seats system has always been brutal it’s extremely easy to have the seats balloon if you’re not careful and if they’re yearly there is only a 30 day window a year where you can cancel them when the banner to do so appears.

I tried Figma again after a few years expecting that they'd surely have a tool that lets me describe a design and then it generates a Figma design file.

Nope. Figma Make first renders an HTML/React app with your design. Then you could convert to a Figma design file if you have a pro plan. Extremely underwhelming.

There's hardly any difference between using Figma and just designing it with Codex and Claude Code. And now, Claude Design seems to get it right.