# Figma (First Draft / Figma Make)

Source: https://useronboarding.ai/companies/figma

- Category: Onboarding for AI products
- Type: Creative
- Product: https://www.figma.com

Figma's AI features start from a prompt on the canvas instead of an empty frame. First Draft asks the user to pick one of four component libraries (from lo-fi wireframe to hi-fi site) and then builds an editable first mockup.

## Notes

- VP of Design Noah Levin says First Draft was renamed from Make Designs to present AI output as a starting point, not a finished design. It addresses the "tedium" at the start of a project by giving designers an AI-generated first draft to iterate on (Figma Blog, 2024-09-24).
- First Draft first asks for a library (App wireframe, Site wireframe, Basic app, Basic site), so the output uses real, editable components (Figma Blog).
- Dylan Field at Config: "you go into Figma Design, you see a blank canvas, how do we get you to create something as fast as possible? If you go into Figma Make, how do we get you to prompt and have an awesome experience very quickly?" He also mentioned an internal team called "Blockers" whose fixes showed up as gains in activation (Lenny's Podcast live at Config, 2024-06-30).

## Patterns

prompt instead of blank canvas, library picker before generation, editable first draft

## Screens

- ![First Draft's first step: a 'Choose a library' picker (App wireframe, Site wireframe, Basic app, Basic site) opened from the AI button in the toolbar](https://useronboarding.ai/images/figma-1.jpg) First Draft's first step: a 'Choose a library' picker (App wireframe, Site wireframe, Basic app, Basic site) opened from the AI button in the toolbar (source: https://www.figma.com/blog/figma-ai-first-draft/)

## Articles

- [Building a better First Draft for designers](https://www.figma.com/blog/figma-ai-first-draft/): Figma Blog (Noah Levin, VP of Design) (by the product team)
- [Dylan Field live at Figma's Config: Intuition, simplicity, and the future of design](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJQYBjto41s): Lenny's Podcast (YouTube) (by the product team)

## Cited in

- [Should the first output be finished or a draft?](https://useronboarding.ai/questions#draft-first)
- [What counts as activated?](https://useronboarding.ai/questions#activation)