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Is there a way I can tell figma what to do in natural language?

Bring that layer up, move this box, etc

> Enhance 224 to 176. Enhance, stop. Move in, stop. Pull out, track right, stop. Center in, pull back. Stop. Track 45 right. Stop. Center and stop. Enhance 34 to 36. Pan right and pull back. Stop. Enhance 34 to 46. Pull back. Wait a minute, go right, stop. Enhance 57 to 19. Track 45 left. Stop. Enhance 15 to 23. Give me a hard copy right there.

https://youtu.be/hHwjceFcF2Q?is=GWE74YfHzoEDaiWL

Ed: arguably there's some interesting bits in that scene beyond foreshadowing dejected designers slumped in a recliner, sipping cheap whiskey in front of a screen, adjusting pixel perfect layout across multiple devices using only a rasping monotone voice...

https://blog.kenperlin.com/?p=16063

I love that Bladerunner scene and often show it to people when explaining how I work with AI.

At the same time I mention that the "I am not a Robot" widget on some websites is the same as a Voight-Kampff-test.

Btw, the scene has an absolutely cringeworthy German translation where Deckard says at the end "Gib mir davon eine feste Kopie" with a literal translation of "hard copy" that nobody would ever use.

Theoretically that's what the Figma agent is for, but I'll be honest in that it released after I left and I haven't tried it enough to tell whether or not it's effective.

I'm doing this via claude desktop actually. A bit weird that claude uses html for that mainly, but it works well.

Install Codex and the Figma plugin.

I haven't edited anything manually in Figma for a while now other than small tweaks.

Had launched this plugin earlier this year to do exactly that: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1589249271423490087/b...

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