The Design-Code Roundtrip That Isn't

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Everyone is using Figma's MCP tools, Claude Code, or Codex. The demos are seamless. The narrative is

compelling. What's actually happening under the hood is something else entirely. And the gap between

the story and the reality is where your next six months of pain is going to come from. I'm Jonathan

Gordon, founder of ReWeaver AI and a programmer-turned-UX designer who spent 30 years in developer

tools at Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Oracle watching the design-engineering gap widen in

slow motion. I've seen every generation of tooling promise to close it. I know exactly where the

seams are. I wrote a technical teardown of what Figma's bidirectional workflow actually ships, what

get_design_context does, what generate_figma_design actually captures (hint: it's a screenshot, not

your design system), and why iterating through that loop 12 times leaves you progressively farther

from your canonical design intent. This talk will walk attendees through each step, backed by

research and specific examples, and include a demo showing how drift accumulates in real time. The

problem is not that drift happens; it's that it's happening exponentially. Let's talk about how we

can stem that tide and keep humans in control of the process, not just "in the loop."

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