Why Our Agency Stopped Using Figma (for Paper + Claude)

I can finally talk about Paper Design. I don't know if you've seen it. It's an alternative to something like Figma. If you're used to Figma, this should feel right at home. Let me tell you why I love it and why we're trying to ditch Figma. This is a wireframe for an upcoming project of ours. It's an internal project called Yak Farm, which is basically an internal software factory that we build for clients. The interesting thing you might want to know is that every wireframe you're looking at here has been vibe coded or agentically built. This is using the MCP, and you can see we have the desktop version, the tablet version, and the mobile version. I want to show you what Paper Design does really well. Looking through these, the first thing I notice is that there's an especially large amount of drop shadows. I'll clear the chat first to give Claude the best chance. This comes from an earlier chat, so I'll start fresh. I'll go to the actual artboard in Paper and press Command+L, which copies the link to the clipboard. I'll go specifically to this one, press Command+L again, and say: "I'd like less stacked drop shadows near where the text entry is. It looks murky." That's the beauty of AI. You don't have to think too much about the spelling and the details. This is the part I had a problem with. I'm not the biggest fan of the stacked drop shadows. Hopefully, and I think it does, it looks much cleaner immediately. This is also done in different ways depending on the screen. This panel is a left-right panel on desktop. On tablet, we need to provide the best user experience, so this panel works like a window on a tablet that you swipe away. On mobile, there isn't much screen real estate, so a tabbed layout makes sense, where you can switch between the chat and the preview. This brings more focus to the user experience and to how people will actually test their applications. In the old days, you'd spend 3 weeks on a high-fidelity wireframe, the client would see it 3 weeks later and say, "This isn't the right direction, I really want to go somewhere else," and you'd be back at the drawing board for another 3 weeks. I can see this becoming a good pattern going forward, and I thought it would be a useful look at how we've been building things for clients.