I've finally released my Figma Community file of all the Tailwind CSS primitives as design tokens and variables so designers have the resources they need to work with teams developing "class-first".
You have to understand that companies based around developer tooling are like people selling shovels in a gold rush.
They are going to say anything it takes to move copium out the door.
What a lot of developers don't realise is that they are terrible at user interaction design simply because they operate from a communication poor mindset.
How can they hope to understand their users if they can't even communicate properly in their own teams?
So no. Tailwind is not there to remove designers from the workflow.
But your fellow designers also suffer from a huge cognitive dissonance, which is that very rarely are we here to design websites and webapps into art gallery discussion pieces.
The target experience isn't the fig eating, wine sipping, art Bourgeoisie.
So living in "primitive hell":
get used to it.
Because it's the reality into which your fantasies have to be implemented in.
Design tokens are easily implemented with any css solution: css variables.
I highly suggest you and any developers you work with have a look at Theemo, a figma plugin and dev tooling to pull and sync figma styles and variables into Style Disctionary compatiable data.
You remind me why I moved to Radix theme
I'm working on a Radix primitives component library right now and it's Def much easier to work with from my perspective!
You have to understand that companies based around developer tooling are like people selling shovels in a gold rush.
They are going to say anything it takes to move copium out the door.
What a lot of developers don't realise is that they are terrible at user interaction design simply because they operate from a communication poor mindset.
How can they hope to understand their users if they can't even communicate properly in their own teams?
So no. Tailwind is not there to remove designers from the workflow.
But your fellow designers also suffer from a huge cognitive dissonance, which is that very rarely are we here to design websites and webapps into art gallery discussion pieces.
The target experience isn't the fig eating, wine sipping, art Bourgeoisie.
So living in "primitive hell":
get used to it.
Because it's the reality into which your fantasies have to be implemented in.
Design tokens are easily implemented with any css solution: css variables.
I highly suggest you and any developers you work with have a look at Theemo, a figma plugin and dev tooling to pull and sync figma styles and variables into Style Disctionary compatiable data.