What it takes to build great products now
Getting to a prototype is easier than ever. The harder work is sustaining speed all the way to launch, choosing the right direction, and creating products that stand out. Here’s what that takes.
Getting to a prototype is easier than ever. The harder work is sustaining speed all the way to launch, choosing the right direction, and creating products that stand out. Here’s what that takes.
There’s a big difference between having an idea and making it real, and in that space is where learning happens. Here’s how teachers are using Figma to give their students hands-on design experiences.
The multidisciplinary designer and artist shares what’s in her “mental database”: an off-putting tarot deck, a Jockstrap CD, and a recurring dream about aerial silks.
Community publishing is now live for Weave tools. Here are a few tools that stand out, from turning a moodboard into a realistic room mockup to previewing your next nail set.
The creative coder explains the throughline between drawing and computation, and why he’s jealous of pioneering artist Lillian Schwartz.
Figma strengthens data protection and security for enterprise customers with local data hosting.
True collaboration isn’t always comfortable.
One of the internet’s favorite designers shares why her cyberdeck doubles as a makeup vanity, and the questions she asks herself to get into a creative space.
The Coinbase Design System team put Code Connect to the test against coding agents—and found that it boosted design system adherence while cutting token costs by an average of 22.5%.
Starting today, you’ll have more creative control over generative plugins and shaders, and a way to share what you’ve made with the community. Product Designer Rogie King tells the story of how we got...
In 2024, we kicked off a study to understand how AI would reshape design and product development. Now, AI is helping us run it.
Thom Bettridge on which magazines have shaped his taste—and what design rule he breaks the most.
Coding agents are reshaping how developers build, but they’re only as good as the input they’re given. This workflow explores how context keeps code and canvas in sync.
Agentic products pose a unique set of design challenges. How do you build a tool that’s powerful and knowledgeable enough to be a true partner, while keeping trust and security at the core? Here’s wha...
With AI, speed comes easy, but so does tech debt. That’s why the best teams don’t just ship something fast; they consider it carefully, build it efficiently, and make it stand out.
Now you can author skills for our agent, directly in Figma, to put your point of view to work. Here are 10 of our favorites to get you started.
The Figma Data Science team assumed that AI saves users time—but quantifying it required a new approach to research design.
When going from design to code, agents lack the context of your production components. With Code Connect in Figma’s MCP, they get that context. We measured its impact on token usage, task duration, an...
From treating code as a proposal to turning handoffs into conversations, here's how we shaped a new way of working to ship nested folders.
More than 90% of product builders say AI skills are essential to their future success. But what if we’re focused on the wrong ones?
With visual editing and annotations, Figma Make is bridging the gap between design and code. Select any element you want to change, adjust it directly in the properties panel, or write in-context prom...
Our security team built an AI agent that triages alerts, conducts forensic investigations, queries our security data lake, writes code to fix issues—and remembers what it learns. Here's how we cut ale...
Here’s how Figma’s Brand Studio designed a conference that captured the very human ways we remix and reinvent when working with AI tools.
For the past year, agents at Figma have guarded code as it's written, reviewed every pull request, and audited a decade-old monorepo, all on one policy.
The conversations we’re still replaying from Config’s Leadership Collective.
The handoff from design to code doesn't have to be a one-way street. This workflow shows how a designer can connect a codebase to Figma Make, make the changes directly, and bring the whole team into r...
The fast-growing customer experience platform explains how Figma MCP and Figma Make helped them scale a new design system and keep pace with customer requests.
Drawing on her time at Patreon and Shopify, design leader Jen Dunnam offers her advice for this new age of AI—from building a strong team to how to think about speed.
With accurate first results and fast iterations, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 gives your builds a strong start in Figma Make.
We showed up to Leadership Collective hoping to learn how leaders are guiding their teams through change, what expertise means now, and how they're keeping quality high as the pace picks up. Here's wh...
The way we make things is changing, but why we make them stays constant—the thrill of seeing a vision come to life.
Building on a canvas unlocks performance that a traditional HTML web app can't touch. It also strips away any accessibility the browser gives you for free. Here's how we built it back in.
From sharing your best thinking to learning from your team’s go-to prompts, here’s what skills unlock in the Figma agent.
Saying you use AI responsibly is easy, but proving it to an accredited auditor is harder. We decided that was a standard worth meeting.
New tools and materials make it easier to build anything and start anywhere. The question now is, where do you want to go?
Figma's Season 5 merch is full of surprises—smiling cubes, a tomato with arms, wooden shapes painted in gouache. We asked the eight artists behind the collection how they work, what inspires them, and...