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# Figma

## Profile
The dominant collaborative design tool used for creating mockups and managing design systems. Built around **proprietary primitives**: components, variables, and modes.

## Role in This Source
Figma is positioned both as the *incumbent under attack* (its stock dropped on Claude Design's launch) and as the *long-term survivor* in the [[concept-the-production-middle]] — see [[claim-figma-survival]] and [[contrarian-figma-not-dead]].

## Why the Moat Holds
Figma's primitives are not part of the open web's training corpus, so LLMs cannot easily replicate them. This makes Figma defensible for production-grade, enterprise-scale design system management even as zero-to-one prototyping shifts to AI code-gen.

## Background Context
See [[prereq-figma-role]] for prerequisite knowledge about Figma's primitives.

## Enrichment Note
Figma's enterprise adoption has continued growing post-AI-launches; AI features (Make Designs, announced at Config 2024) are positioned as *augmentation*, not replacement of the canvas paradigm.