Are Design Tools Relevant Anymore (opens in new tab)

I was a product designer for a few years. I had switched careers to design after suffering burn out as a software engineer. During those years, my entire day was spent in Figma, building high fidelity mockups, leading workshops and creating prototypes. While Figma helped me move quickly, rapidly iterating after receiving user feedback, the engineer part of me always felt it was a throwaway step. You build something, only to then have somebody else build it again in code.