Numeric redesigned its design process by moving away from Figma to a code-based design system where designers work directly in the browser with interactive React components. This shift enables backend engineers to ship design-compliant features, non-engineers to create prototypes, and automated checks to enforce consistency, resulting in faster shipping and higher design polish across the product.
A Hacker News user asks how engineers at polished product companies like Linear, Instagram, and Figma maintain product quality while using agentic coding tools, questioning whether these organizations move slower, rely on human designers and editors, or employ different development practices compared to hastily built AI-assisted apps.
A designer created Palette, a Figma plugin that generates complete UI color systems from a single color, built on a newly invented color language called ART. The tool addresses long-standing design problems like color shifting, accessibility compliance, and print-to-digital matching, with plans for web and Adobe versions.
Lisse is a JavaScript library for drawing squircle corners, the smooth curves used by Figma and iOS. It offers bindings for React, Vue, and Svelte with features for per-corner control, borders, and shadows.
Pen.dev is a WebGL-powered design tool that integrates AI agents from Claude, OpenAI, Grok, and others directly into the canvas for collaborative design work. It supports importing from Figma and webpages, offers shader-based visual effects, and exports designs as HTML/CSS with one click.