How Decagon uses AI for design system saturation
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.
What does the future of software look like?
Our community imagines how AI might bring about more human ways to interact with software.
Speaking the language of color
The Pantone Color Institute explains how brands can use color to shape meaning and drive trends.
4 ways for design teams to chart new territory with Figma Make
These ideas from Maven Clinic, Pendo, ServiceNow, and LinkedIn show how designers can prompt a path forward with Figma Make.
The branding for Intercom’s AI summit looks like an alien superbloom
For the customer service and AI event Pioneer, Intercom’s designers used Figma to create a visual language of surreal flowers and shape-shifting pollen.
The anatomy of a summer campaign: How Instacart staged a sick ’90s throwback
Instacart’s creative studio and marketing teams pulled off a nostalgic summer campaign featuring our favorite snacks from 1999.
Version control: How Figma Make helped us figure out video playback
To get videos working just right in Figma Buzz, Product Designer Natasha Tenggoro used Figma Make to prototype complex ideas when words fell short. We show three of them here, prompts and all.
Getting into the groove: How music shaped the scatter brushes in Figma Draw
Today, we’re adding 10 new scatter brushes to push the creative possibilities in Figma Draw. Here’s how the team drew inspiration from Doo-wop, Vaporwave, and other music genres to design them.
6 skills every engineer needs for the AI era
Figma’s Vice President of Software Engineering Marcel Weekes and Developer Advocate Jake Albaugh share the crucial skills engineers should learn to meet the moment.
Double click: What does MCP mean for agentic AI?
The sudden boom in MCP has kicked excitement about the agentic web into high gear. Is this the missing link we’ve needed between AI and all our other tools?
Double click: Does efficiency kill love?
At Config 2025, we were in our feelings about AI—but not in the ways you’d expect. This time around, the buzz was around building connection and care.
Version control: Three ways Figma explored horizontal scrolling
What seemed like a straightforward request—add a horizontal scroll bar to the Layers panel in Figma—presented unexpected challenges.
How teams tap into the power of design with Figma Slides
Today, we’re announcing new features in Figma Slides that unlock high-fidelity design and cross-functional collaboration.
Save time on building decks—without sacrificing design
From extensive image libraries to design cleanup, plugins for Slides are here to help you prepare and polish your presentation.
Double click: Human takes on agentic AI
There's a lot of buzz about AI agents, like OpenAI Operator and Perplexity Assistant. How might automation change how we think about UX and websites?
The best advice to bring to work in 2025
Industry leaders from companies like Ableton, Snapchat, and Coda set resolutions for managing teams, shipping products, and sparking great ideas in the year ahead.
Made in Figma: The National Park Service goes from paper to pixels
How do you design an app for 431 diverse national parks and monuments? Learn how a small team adapted Massimo Vignelli’s seminal design system for a digital interface.
Figma on Figma: Our approach to designing UI3
Overhauling Figma’s interface meant reimagining how designers work. Here’s how we shaped UI3 by balancing user feedback with our vision for the future.
Just our type: The story of creating Figma Sans
We’ve overhauled our entire visual identity from color palette to illustration style, and even commissioned a new typeface.
How Crunchyroll clarified confusing workflows with Dev Mode
The anime streaming service supports 15 platforms and is available in 12 languages. Here’s how they deliver a consistent experience across touchpoints.
Should robots be building our homes?
Jason Ballard, co-founder and CEO of Icon, explains why AI and his fleet of 3D-printing robots may be our ticket to more affordable housing.
Can we reach beyond the echo chamber?
Two creatives behind the browser that’s breaking the internet discuss what Zadie Smith, A24, and sunspots have to do with building a product.
Are we finally entering the age of androids?
Humanoid robots are here, and they’re asking us to come face to face with the promises and pitfalls of AI.
Surf the web like it’s 1999 with these old-school cursors
404 isn’t just an error code—this year it’s our annual April Fun Day. We’re throwing it back to our favorite digital design eras.
The anatomy of a Super Bowl ad
How learning app Duolingo’s cheeky five-second spot beat the odds in a crowded field.
When net zero isn’t enough: Deepening our commitment to climate action by investing in the future
With our biggest ever investment in sustainability, Figma ensures that vanguard technologies the future depends on will continue to scale.
Top 10 things we shipped this year
From the Handoff Hero to the Scroll-stopper, we crown our favorite updates and features rolled out in 2023.
Three Creator Fund projects to know and love
Our grant program empowers the community to create free resources for all to use. These tools are some of the highlights.
How Figma’s data science and user research teams weave together insights that count
A cross-functional team brought together quantitative and qualitative learnings to figure out why notifications were falling short—and how to make them better.
Meet the nonprofit training formerly incarcerated people for careers in UX design
Oakland, California-based CROP Organization wants to forge a better path for those facing the challenges of reentry.