"I'm a designer. For years, my world has been Figma, Sketch, Adobe. Nice GUIs with buttons and panels and things I could click. The terminal? That was a black rectangle where the dev team did hacker things. No buttons. No UI. Just a blinking cursor judging you for not knowing what ls -la meant. And now? My design tool of choice is the terminal. I know. For a designer, this sounds ridiculous. But now the alternative, tools like figma, now even feel old-school..."
"The Shift Last year I started using Claude Code, as u may already know, a CLI tool... meaning, I would have to use that scary terminal thing. But... while it took me a bit to get used to it, it wasn't so bad because instead of having to learn a ton of commands, I just... talked to it. I described what I..."
A designer moved from GUI-heavy tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe) to embracing the terminal as the preferred design environment. The terminal was once an intimidating black rectangle associated with developers, lacking buttons or visual UI. A past comic captured reverence mixed with fear toward the terminal. Adoption of Claude Code, a CLI tool, required using the terminal but felt approachable because the designer communicated with the tool instead of memorizing commands. The designer now uses description-driven, terminal-based workflows and perceives traditional GUI tools as increasingly old-school.
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