Figma skills now hold a designer's taste: "ease like Miggi" ran across her whole team

The tools got faster this year. Agents live in Figma now. They click around inside Chrome on your behalf. They write and test code from a spec. If your team's value came from making the artifact, that value just dropped. Let me catch you up on where the worth moved and what to defend.

The deep cut

• Production is cheap now, so judgment is the job. When AI generates interfaces in seconds, Xinran Ma says demand shifts to designers with a point of view.
• Write the spec, not the prompt. Kanwal Mehreen shows a vague ask passes a test and breaks a hidden assumption.
• A skill is your taste, saved and shared. Miggi Cardona's /ease-like-miggi made a whole team's motion ease like hers.

The floor is now free

AI can produce a clean layout fast. It can also produce a boring one. Xinran Ma points out that the tools all train on similar data, so they drift toward the same generic UI. She calls the durable skill taste, meaning a designer's own judgment about what is good, built by taking in a lot of high-quality work over years.

That gives you a hiring frame. The person who can only assemble screens is now competing with a machine that assembles screens for free. The person who can say why one screen resonates and another falls flat is harder to replace. Ma's advice to her mentees is to be a little opinionated. Tools keep changing. A formed point of view holds its value across the changes.

The prompt worked, the spec failed

The bigger shift is what "doing the work" means. Kanwal Mehreen draws a sharp line: prompt engineering is how you ask, specification engineering is how you define what "done correctly" means. Ask an agent to "fix the bug" and it patches a visible test while breaking something hidden. The prompt worked. The spec failed.

A real spec names the objective, the constraints, the edge cases, and the checks that must pass. That reads a lot like a good design brief. Linda Ojo at Paystack turned this into a Figma skill after seeing the same handoff note over and over: "What happens when this fails?" and "What does empty look like?" Her /ui-state-expander forces every state to be designed before it ships. That checklist in her head became something an agent runs. The skill is the spec.

Your judgment, packaged

Figma's new skills are plain markdown files that hold a designer's rules. Miggi Cardona wrote one for her easing curves, named it /ease-like-miggi, and when her team ran it, their motion eased like hers. Jakub Krehel packed his interface craft standards into /better-interface. Joey Primiani turned his personal review process into a traffic-light crit. These are not clever automations. They are one person's judgment, written down and shared.

That changes what a senior designer produces. The output is not just the file. It is the opinion, captured so juniors and agents apply it without you in the room. If your best people carry good calls only in their heads, you are leaving value on the table.

The web still recedes

Watch how Google shipped agents into Chrome for the guardrails. Monica Gonzalez, who leads design for Desktop Chrome, told Kursat Ozenc that AI "doesn't have a sense of taste or coherence with a larger ecosystem." So production still runs through Figma with tight library rules. And because the browser holds your passwords, her team built "voice of the agent" flags and a subtle context glow so users know when the agent is acting for them and stay in control.

Her call on multi-agent UI is worth stealing. She resisted showing a senior agent managing twenty others, because it is a lot to explain and the output is not clearly better. Demystify the machine, do not expose it. That is a taste decision, and no agent made it.

Three questions for your team

• When you defend headcount at the next review, can you name the judgment calls your seniors make that the tools cannot? If the answer is "they make the files," you have a problem.
• Which of your team's repeated review notes should become a written spec or a Figma skill this quarter, so the call gets applied without the person present?
• In your leveling rubric, does "taste and specification" show up as a measured skill, or are you still rewarding output volume that AI now covers for free?