>There’s a real gap in the workflow between design - basically a drawing - and working code.
In tools like Sketch and Figma you're digging for the underlying visual rules, one "component" or layer can have a ton of variations, and I can quickly compare and compose them side by side on a canvas. You build an evolving system to build design systems from.
In code you're implementing the version or composition that made it, one composition. Unless you can move, juggle and manipulate items as convenient as in design tools, exploring compositions with code is a much lesser experience for a designer, even if he can code.
In tools like Sketch and Figma you're digging for the underlying visual rules, one "component" or layer can have a ton of variations, and I can quickly compare and compose them side by side on a canvas. You build an evolving system to build design systems from.
In code you're implementing the version or composition that made it, one composition. Unless you can move, juggle and manipulate items as convenient as in design tools, exploring compositions with code is a much lesser experience for a designer, even if he can code.