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Comment by OtherShrezzing | Hacker News Reader

If you think your CC wireframe has taken approx as much time as it'd have taken you with another tool like Figma + spec-writing, and one of your engineering team's options is "rewrite it from scratch" (without a spec), has the use of CC saved your company any time at all?

It reads like this project would have taken your company 9 weeks before, and now will take the company 9 weeks.

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I think the comment was showing that the project takes 9 weeks either way, but coming to that determination was much more confident and convincing with a functional demo versus a hand-wavy figma + guesstimate.

> was much more confident and convincing with a functional demo versus a hand-wavy figma + guesstimate.

Except it also blurs the lines and sets incorrect expectations.

Management often see code being developed quickly (without full understanding of the fine line between PoC and production ready) and soon they expect it to be done with CC in 1/2 the time or less.

Figma on the other hand makes it very clear it is not code.

Which is why I like balsamiq. It looks like hand sketches but can be interactive. I can create any UI for brainstorming in a matter of minutes with it. Once the discussion is settled, we can move to figma for actual UI design (colors, spacing,…).

Yeah. The prototyping is neat. But in past lives I would literally sketch the "POC" on paper.

I sort of want to get back to that... it was really good at getting ideas across.

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