Claude Design vs Figma, Lovable, v0: What's Different

TL;DR: Figma, Lovable, v0, and Claude Design are not the same tool. They pick different starting points: the design file, an idea, a component prompt, your codebase. Different starting points, different jobs. If you have shipped a product, you know the cycle. Brief to designer. Something comes back that does not quite match the brand. Revise. Engineer reinterprets the spec. Revise again. Two weeks later, the thing looks slightly off. Early adopters described cutting that whole cycle to a single