"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... here's how it happened This is a comic from a few years ago... u can see I revered the terminal with respect (and fear) 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."
A designer transitioned from GUI tools like Figma, Sketch, and Adobe to using the terminal as a primary design tool. Initial fear and reverence for the terminal gave way to practical use after adopting a conversational CLI tool, Claude Code. The conversational interface allowed natural language descriptions instead of memorizing commands, making the terminal approachable for design tasks. The terminal-based workflow now feels more modern to the designer than traditional GUI tools, reflecting a personal shift in preference and workflow driven by conversational tooling and command-line integration.
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