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Code, craft, and the making of nested folders

August 3, 2026

By Ethan Adams, Cai Charniga, Sachi Shah

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.

Inside Figma
Product updates
Behind the scenes
Collaboration
News

A properties panel and annotations, now in Figma Make

July 30, 2026

By Phillip Wang

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 prompts with annotations.

Inside Figma
Product updates
Figma Make
Prototyping
News

Digital tools, human expression: The visual identity behind Config 2026

July 27, 2026

By Matt Alagiah

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.

Inside Figma
Config
Branding
Behind the scenes
Design

Catch up on Config 2026

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Config 2026: New materials, new tools and a more expressive canvas

June 24, 2026

By Dylan Field

Push past what you thought was possible with code layers, Figma Motion, shaders, generative plugins and Weave tools, all on the canvas.

Inside Figma
Product updates
Config
News
Figma agent
Figma Weave
Motion

Introducing Figma Motion: Your canvas now has a timeline

June 24, 2026

By David Hornsby

Motion now lives on the canvas—in the same file as your components, your variables, and your team—so your designs can come to life from day one.

Inside Figma
Product updates
Figma Design
Motion
3D design
Config
News

Mockup of a mobile design canvas in Figma surrounded by AI-generated task prompts. A poster titled “MODULAR LIVING” by Camille Vosk is selected on the canvas while blue status bubbles display messages such as “Creating QR code plugin,” “Generating code layer,” “Creating custom shader,” and “Checking color contrast,” illustrating AI-assisted design workflows.

Figma’s design agent, now with custom tools and greater context

June 24, 2026

By Georgia Rust, Rodrigo Davies

Prompting gets you started. Custom tools, real context, and skills take the design agent further—so what ends up on the canvas actually looks like you.

Inside Figma
Product updates
Figma agent
Figma Design
Config
AI
News

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Code on the Figma canvas

June 24, 2026

By Nikolas Klein

With code layers in Figma Design, you can explore multiple directions with code, side by side with your team.

Inside Figma
Product updates
Figma Design
Config
News

Three-panel product graphic demonstrating AI-powered style transfer. On the left, a "Transfer style" interface displays a target image of people carrying skateboards and a blurred portrait used as the style source. In the center, a workflow canvas labeled "Spring Campaign" shows a connected post-generation node producing a floral-themed social media graphic titled "Spring Arrivals." On the right, a gallery-style layout displays generated creative assets, including an illustrated handshake artwork and merchandise design cards, showing how transferred styles can be applied across a campaign.

Connecting Figma and Weave

June 24, 2026

By Itay Schiff

Today, we’re announcing new ways your Weave creative workflows can live alongside your Figma frames.

Inside Figma
Product updates
Figma Weave
Config
AI
News

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Got skills? Make the Figma agent a better collaborator

July 1, 2026

By Sachi Shah, Sean Lee

From sharing your best thinking to learning from your team’s go-to prompts, here’s what skills unlock in the Figma agent.

Working Well
Figma agent
Figma Design
Figma Make
Figma MCP
AI
Tips & inspiration

Meet the artists behind Figma’s Season 5 collection

June 29, 2026

By Emma Webster

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 what they created.

Inside Figma
Behind the scenes
Culture
Config
Profiles & interviews

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How to keep design teams steady through constant change

July 9, 2026

By Emma Webster

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.

Insights
Config
Thought leadership
AI
Sightlines

Config 2026: New materials, new tools, and a more expressive canvas

AI has lowered the floor, it has not raised the ceiling. Designers, creatives, builders: You will raise the ceiling.

Dylan Field, Co-founder and CEO, Figma

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Start Anywhere, a magazine by Figma

June 29, 2026

By Amber Bravo

New tools and materials make it easier to build anything and start anywhere. The question now is, where do you want to go?

Inside Figma
Config
Design
Culture
Thought leadership
Writing

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You never stop cultivating taste

June 8, 2026

By Loredana Crisan

Having the right tools can only take you so far. To become a master of your craft, you need to hone a point of view.

Insights
Thought leadership
Tips & inspiration
Design

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What matters when anyone can build

May 22, 2026

By Yuhki Yamashita

If AI can make anyone a product builder, the real edge is knowing what’s worth shipping.

Insights
Product management
Thought leadership

Principles in motion

June 24, 2026

By Anja Laubscher

When you’re designing motion, you’re designing with time. Understanding the mechanics turns movement into meaning.

Working Well
Motion
Profiles & interviews
Tips & inspiration
Design

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Speaking the language of color

June 17, 2026

By Jenny Xie

The Pantone Color Institute explains how brands can use color to shape meaning and drive trends.

Maker Stories
Branding
Culture
Config

What the design-to-code loop unlocks

May 12, 2026

By Anja Laubscher

With work moving more fluidly between code and canvas, workflows aren’t just changing—they’re converging.

Working Well
AI
Design
Profiles & interviews
Tips & inspiration

How to design agentic tools for work

April 29, 2026

By Jenny Xie

The Gemini Enterprise team shares their approach to making complex, multi-agent workflows feel simple, intuitive, and trustworthy.

Maker Stories
AI
Design
UI/UX
Tips & inspiration
Profiles & interviews

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4 new ways to go from idea to product with AI tools

May 28, 2026

By Emma Webster

AI tools are changing how teams build products—from where they start to what carries through to production. Here's what that shift looks like across four organizations.

Working Well
AI
Design
Design thinking
Prototyping
Figma Make
Tips & inspiration

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What does the future of software look like?

June 24, 2026

By Jenny Xie

Our community imagines how AI might bring about more human ways to interact with software.

Insights
AI
UI/UX
Culture
Design

Insights on software

Figma's 2026 AI report: Can AI help us collaborate better?

June 24, 2026

By Madeline Stafford, Shane Johnston

AI used to be a solo act. According to our research, it’s not anymore.

Insights
AI
Collaboration
Design
Report
Research
Thought leadership
News

Read the report

State of the Designer 2026: Designers are leaning into the messy middle
February 12, 2026
By Madeline Stafford
Our State of the Designer report explores how designers around the world are upleveling their skills, keeping craft high, and turning new pressures into creative momentum.
Insights
Research
Report
Design
AI
Design’s influence is expanding, and here’s why that feels hard
March 17, 2026
By Andrew Hogan
As AI accelerates creation and raises expectations, designers are navigating a field that’s bigger, faster, and more demanding than ever.
Insights
Thought leadership
Research
Design
AI
5 design skills to sharpen in the AI era
March 10, 2026
By Madeline Stafford
Our latest research highlights the skills designers need to meet the moment.
Insights
AI
Career & education
Design
Tips & inspiration
Research

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Code, craft, and the making of nested folders
August 3, 2026
By Ethan Adams, Cai Charniga, Sachi Shah
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.
Inside Figma
Product updates
Behind the scenes
Collaboration
News
AI fluency isn't the finish line
July 31, 2026
By Andrew Hogan
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?
Insights
Thought leadership
AI
Research
A properties panel and annotations, now in Figma Make
July 30, 2026
By Phillip Wang
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 prompts with annotations.
Inside Figma
Product updates
Figma Make
Prototyping
News
How we secure Figma’s internal systems with agents
July 29, 2026
By Matthew Sullivan, Brad Girardeau
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 alert time-to-resolution by 71% and fundamentally changed how our on-call engineers work.
Inside Figma
Engineering
Security
Digital tools, human expression: The visual identity behind Config 2026
July 27, 2026
By Matt Alagiah
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.
Inside Figma
Config
Branding
Behind the scenes
Design
How Figma stays ahead of vulnerabilities with agents
July 23, 2026
By Rohan Sharma, Liam Buchan, Dave Martin
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.
Inside Figma
Engineering
Security
Sightlines issue no.1: Insights from Config
July 16, 2026
By Figma
The conversations we’re still replaying from Config’s Leadership Collective.
Insights
Sightlines
Thought leadership
Config
Workflow lab: Deploying designs directly with Figma Make
July 16, 2026
By Laura Fehre
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 review—right up to the PR.
Working Well
Figma Make
Figma agent
Figma Design
AI
Tips & inspiration
How Decagon uses AI for design system saturation
July 10, 2026
By Jenny Xie
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.
Maker Stories
AI
Case study
Design systems
Prototyping
Figma MCP
Figma Make
How to keep design teams steady through constant change
July 9, 2026
By Emma Webster
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.
Insights
Config
Thought leadership
AI
Sightlines
GPT-5.6 is now available in Figma Make
July 9, 2026
By Gui Seiz
With accurate first results and fast iterations, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 gives your builds a strong start in Figma Make.
Inside Figma
Product updates
Figma Make
AI
Design
Prototyping
News
7 questions we had going into Config Leadership Collective
July 3, 2026
By Emma Webster
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 what we heard.
Insights
Config
AI
Thought leadership
Sightlines