One way I've been using AI daily for design

To be honest, AI isn't the best at designing production-ready mockups (yet?). It's great with data, summarising things, and the repetitive boring stuff. But we all know what a design looks like when it comes out of an LLM tool. It's the same boring stuff each time, wasting your tokens on things that can never actually work in real projects.

What you can do however, is use the coding capabilities plus MCP or Figma exports to build animations that are interactive and really close to the final idea, if not the final idea itself. The generated code might need a developer to clean it up but instead of trying to explain your idea through a Figma prototype or with words, how about you just show it?

The animation above comes from an old design of mine that I pulled out just to try doing an interaction and a micro-animation in Swift. A couple of prompts and fixes and it turned out great. It wasn't as fast as some might think, and it needed a lot of tweaks to be somewhat decent, but it saves a lot of back-and-forth with the devs later on, and from an actual project experience, it can save time for them too.

I'll keep experimenting with vibe-coding animations on top of designs that are built in Figma and are 100% accurate to spec. I can only imagine great things coming out of this.