Ask HN: Small team devs – how do you collab with UI/UX designers in the AI era?
There are a couple of interrelated problems:
1. As we move faster and a higher proportion of our frontend code is AI generated it means more minor UI bugs and inconsistencies. These are generally things that could be zero-shotted by an agent but from what I've found the agentic coding tools for existing mid-sized codebases tend to be developer-focused and not easy for a designer to setup/use.
2. Everything was originally designed in Figma but pixel pushing every screen is feeling increasingly redundant. So ideally we'd just rely on some core components built in Figma and then vibe code their implementation. But of course when we want to change an existing component, I tend to just implement that change in code, get design-approval, and ship it: figma never gets updated, so its been pretty much discarded and the actual component system in production has become unwieldy and inconsistent.
Wondering if anyone can relate to these issues and what you're are doing to solve them? And more generally what the design/dev process is looking like these days in early stage teams.