Figma Disables This AI Feature Which Looks Like A Copy Of Apple Weather App

Days after its launch, Figma, the popular design software company, announced that its new AI-powered Make Designs feature will be temporarily deactivated. This was due to customer feedback that the new feature was generating designs that resembled Apple’s Weather app.

Not Boring Software’s CEO, Andy Allen, was the first to raise the matter on social media on July 1. He demonstrated how well Figma's Make Designs tool matched Apple's weather app.

“Just a heads up to any designers using the new Make Designs feature that you may want to thoroughly check existing apps or modify the results heavily so that you don’t unknowingly land yourself in legal trouble,” Allen warned on X).

On July 2, Figma CEO Dylan Field responded to Andy Allen's tweet and posted a thread on X describing the removal, blaming himself for pressuring the team to reach a deadline and defending the company’s approach to building AI tools.

“As we shared at Config last week – as well as on our blog, our website, and many other touchpoints – the Make Design feature is not trained on Figma content, community files, or app designs. In other words, the accusations around data training in this tweet are false,” Dylan Field wrote.

In another tweet, Figma CEO Dylan Field detailed how the Make Design feature works. The feature makes use of off-the-shelf LLMs in conjunction with design systems commissioned specifically for certain models. “The problem with this approach — which I outlined in my keynote last week — is that variability is too low,” according to him.

Dylan Field also noted that the problem “was related to the underlying design systems that were created” when describing the issue. He also blamed himself, stating that “it is my fault for not insisting on a better QA process for this work and pushing our team hard to meet a Config deadline.”

Further in his post, the Figma CEO stated that he has instructed his team to temporarily stop the Make Design tool until they are confident with its output. He also stated that they will re-enable it once they have finished a thorough QA test on the underlying design system.

Meanwhile, Kris Rasmussen, Figma’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), said in an interview with The Verge that the company uses third-party AI models, especially OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Amazon’s Titan Image Generator G1.