CREATING PROTOTYPES CONSTRAINED BY THE MEDIUM NOT OUR SKILLS OR UNDERSTANDING

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Designers working in code may create limited prototypes not due to medium constraints, but because their technical skills restrict their imagination. While tools like Figma have their own learning curves and limitations, AI assistance can now help bridge this gap by enabling designers to prototype realistic interactions rapidly, which they understand conceptually but lack the coding speed to execute. The key challenge remains ensuring designers develop sufficient understanding of web fundamentals to ask AI the right questions, rather than having their creative vision constrained by technical capability gaps.