# Figma rolled back its Make Designs prompt-to-UI feature soon after launch when 'weather app' prompts produced screens closely resembling Apple's, citing unvetted new components; relaunched Sept 2024

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20240702-product-designer-1
Date: 2024-07-02 · Stage: Constraint
Can this record move a task judgement? yes
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## Scope

One design-tool vendor's generative feature (GPT-4o and Amazon Titan on hand-built component design systems), limited beta. A vendor rollback, not a customer deployment; the feature returned within three months as First Draft.

## Source

- Figma — blog retrospective — https://www.figma.com/blog/inside-figma-a-retrospective-on-make-designs/ (primary source)

## What this means

A constraint record on the screen-production task from the tool vendor itself: a prompt-to-UI feature was pulled shortly after launch when 'weather app' produced screens resembling Apple's, with the vendor saying new components and example screens had not been vetted carefully enough. It speaks to deployment conditions — generated screens carry quality and IP risk the vendor had not controlled — and the relaunch three months later means the task's direction is unchanged while the uncertainty on 'when it is safe to ship' widened.

## What it does not show yet

A vendor rollback of a beta feature is not evidence about any design team's practice, and the feature came back as First Draft within three months, so it is not a sign the capability failed. It concerns generating screens from a vendor's own component sets; it says nothing about code-generation tools that skip mockups, and nothing about design hiring anywhere.

## How to verify it yourself

Run First Draft (or whatever generation feature your design tool offers) on one flow your team shipped last quarter, using your own design system, and count how many generated screens a senior designer would accept without rework; that acceptance rate, not Figma's retrospective, tells you how much of your screen-production time is exposed today.


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