--- title: Top ten Figma betrayals | daily.dev description: A web developer's critique of common Figma design pitfalls that create problems during implementation. Covers issues like full-width banners with unclear... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/top-ten-figma-betrayals-axdefz5bg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Top ten Figma betrayals | daily.dev og:description: A web developer's critique of common Figma design pitfalls that create problems during implementation. Covers issues like full-width banners with unclear... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/top-ten-figma-betrayals-axdefz5bg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/aXdEFz5BG.png og:image:alt: Top ten Figma betrayals og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Top ten Figma betrayals **[dbushell](https://daily.dev/sources/dbushell)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A web developer's critique of common Figma design pitfalls that create problems during implementation. Covers issues like full-width banners with unclear responsive behavior, focal point ambiguity across breakpoints, arbitrary line breaks that don't translate to real web rendering, and the proliferation of breakpoints. The core argument is that these 'betrayals' stem from Figma's inability to represent the fluid, responsive nature of the web, and that the real solution is early collaboration between designers, developers, and content authors — not more design iterations in isolation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#ui-design](https://daily.dev/tags/ui-design), [#figma](https://daily.dev/tags/figma) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/top-ten-figma-betrayals-axdefz5bg) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Top ten Figma betrayals","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/top-ten-figma-betrayals-axdefz5bg","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/top-ten-figma-betrayals-axdefz5bg"},"datePublished":"2026-04-19T08:03:50.763Z","dateModified":"2026-04-19T08:04:12.704Z","description":"A web developer's critique of common Figma design pitfalls that create problems during implementation. Covers issues like full-width banners with unclear...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/66eb39d9751a53635b6a060af70b2a76?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/66eb39d9751a53635b6a060af70b2a76?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"dbushell","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"dbushell","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--o8r11ve8--/f_auto,q_auto/v1776585822/logos/dbushell","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/dbushell"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/top-ten-figma-betrayals-axdefz5bg","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ui-design,figma","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"dbushell","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/dbushell"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Top ten Figma betrayals"}]} ```