Nitski: Mercor team is shifting away from Figma to Claude
Osvald Nitski · Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs · Jul 25, 2026 · at 18:01
Osvald Nitski, Chief Product Officer at Mercor, discusses how product and engineering teams are moving away from traditional design tools like Figma in favor of Claude.
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“To be honest, I let the team do whatever is best for them, and this is a trend I've just observed amongst almost everybody, is that cloud design has done a great job. People really like using it, it's easy to use, and we've just had a natural movement towards it. It's also a bit easier to not have too many tools, not manage too many licenses, and because Claude is, like, making all these other great, great features people just gravitate towards it, and then it's a bit less friction to have the procurement team issue licenses for Figma for every single person.”
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