figma-make-three-composability-levels¶
Insight: Figma's AI product strategy maps to three levels of composability: (1) Figma Make — highest abstraction, prompt to full design and working app, (2) Figma Design — core component-level design product, (3) underlying Design System — tokens and components. Changes can move between levels: a Make-generated design can be pulled into Design for refinement, and Design work can leverage the system layer.
Detail: Field frames this against the Latent Space "specs, test, code" triad for software engineering, adapting it to design as "full design, individual components, underlying design system." This three-layer model suggests where different practitioners enter: vibe coders at the Make level, design engineers at the Design level, and design systems teams at the system level. The strategic implication is that Figma wants to own all three levels, positioning against both vibe coding platforms (Lovable, Bolt) and developer-facing tools.