Sightlines issue no.2: What leaders need to know about building agents
Agentic products pose a unique set of design challenges. Here’s what we’ve heard from leaders.
How to move fast toward the right thing
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.
Try these 10 skills—and show off your own
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.
Measuring time savings from Figma Make
The Figma Data Science team assumed that AI saves users time—but quantifying it required a new approach to research design.
Better code, fewer tokens: The benefits of Code Connect in MCP
Here’s what we found when we evaluated the impact of Code Connect on agents using Figma’s MCP server.
Code, craft, and the making of nested folders
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.
AI fluency isn't the finish line
Ninety percent of product builders say AI skills are essential to their future success. But what if we’re focused on the wrong ones?
A properties panel and annotations, now in Figma Make
With visual editing and annotations, Figma Make is bridging the gap between design and code.
How we secure Figma’s internal systems with agents
Here's how we cut alert time-to-resolution by 71% and fundamentally changed how our on-call engineers work.
How Figma stays ahead of vulnerabilities with agents
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.
Sightlines issue no.1: Insights from Config
The conversations we’re still replaying from Config’s Leadership Collective.
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.
GPT-5.6 is now available in Figma Make
With accurate first results and fast iterations, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 gives your builds a strong start in Figma Make.
How to keep design teams steady through constant change
Design leader Jen Dunnam offers her advice for this new age of AI—from building a strong team to how to think about speed.
Issue no.17: Build with joy
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.
Building accessibility into a canvas-based product
The canvas doesn't come with the standard HTML elements that make the browser accessible. Here's how we built accessibility in, from scratch.
Got skills? Make the Figma agent a better collaborator
Here's what skills unlock in the Figma agent.
Trust you can verify: Figma is now ISO 42001 certified
Saying you use AI responsibly is easy, but proving it to an accredited auditor is harder. We decided that was a standard worth meeting.
Start Anywhere, a magazine by Figma
New tools and materials make it easier to build anything and start anywhere. The question now is, where do you want to go?
Connecting Figma and Weave
Today, we’re announcing new ways your Weave creative workflows can live alongside your Figma frames.
Introducing Figma Motion: Your canvas now has a timeline
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.
What does the future of software look like?
Our community imagines how AI might bring about more human ways to interact with software.
Config 2026: New materials, new tools and a more expressive canvas
Push past what you thought was possible with code layers, Figma Motion, shaders, generative plugins and Weave tools, all on the canvas.
Figma’s design agent, now with custom tools and greater context
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.
Direct every frame with Runway Aleph 2.0, now in Figma Weave
Aleph 2.0 brings frame-level creative direction and video editing control to the Figma Weave canvas.
Speaking the language of color
The Pantone Color Institute explains how brands can use color to shape meaning and drive trends.
4 ways we’re using our MCP server at Figma
The Figma MCP server extends across our platform. From FigJam to Figma Slides, Figma Make, and the Figma agent, here are four ways we’re using it.
Improving performance in the layers panel
We rearchitected the layers panel with new computation and caching strategies, resulting in 30–50% faster interactions in some of the largest, most complex files.
Steal this template: Bring a user persona to life with Figma Weave
Lead Product Designer at Dropbox Sara Clayton used Figma Weave to add dimension to an Ideal Customer Profile in under two minutes. Steal her template to make your users feel real.
You never stop cultivating taste
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.
Figma Make, now on your local code
From visual editing to contextual prompting and collaboration, Figma Make is expanding how teams can design with code.
4 new ways to go from idea to product with AI tools
AI tools are changing how teams build products—from where they start to what carries through to production.
Issue no.16: Trust the process
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.
7 tips for using Figma Make credits more efficiently
While everyone’s talking about “tokenmaxxing,” we’ve compiled seven best practices to help you build smarter—without prompting more—in Figma Make.
What matters when anyone can build
If AI can make anyone a product builder, the real edge is knowing what’s worth shipping.
A new chapter: Friends of Figma’s brand refresh tells the story of a global community
From São Paulo to Seoul, Friends of Figma chapters around the world are distinct, vibrant, and locally rooted. Our new brand gives them a more authentic way to express themselves.
What the design-to-code loop unlocks
With work moving more fluidly between code and canvas, workflows aren’t just changing—they’re converging.
PGKeeper: Building the bouncer we needed for Postgres
This is the story of why and how we built PGKeeper, a scalable and reliable service to support Figma’s rapidly growing products and database workload.
FigJam is now your coding agent’s whiteboard too
Agents are changing your code faster than your team can follow. Now you can close that gap with new MCP skills, architecture layouts, and more in FigJam.
How AI leaders are borrowing from the design playbook
A new class of leaders is leaning on design principles to guide their companies through AI transformation.
The TL;DR on MCP: Why context matters and how to put it to work
Here’s what MCP unlocks for everyone who builds products.
Turning prompts into five scalable workflows with Figma Weave
To build upon a visual language with AI, you need to harness the logic behind each prompt. Here, we share five creative workflows that show the breadth of what the Figma Weave canvas can do.
Build with more context and more control in Figma Make
Starting today, Make kits and Make attachments bring context into Figma Make, so prototypes start from real components, data, and constraints.
6 designs that reimagine how we interact with software
This year's Make-a-thon winners offer new ways to connect, reflect, and play through software.
Figma's next-generation data caching platform
This is the story of how we built FigCache, a foundational technology that underpins a reimagined internal platform for ephemeral data.
How we rebuilt the foundations of component instances
By replacing a decade-old architecture with a reactive foundation, we made common operations in large design systems up to 50% faster and unlocked a new way to build dynamic features.
Design’s influence is expanding, and here’s why that feels hard
As AI accelerates creation and raises expectations, designers are navigating a field that’s bigger, faster, and more demanding than ever.
Issue no.15: The state of design
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.
5 design skills to sharpen in the AI era
Our latest research highlights the skills designers need to meet the moment.
Vishal Kapoor’s 10 rules for building honest products with AI
Affirm SVP of Product Vishal Kapoor shares 10 non-negotiable rules for harnessing AI to build products that are clear, secure, and fundamentally honest.
3 ways product teams are building conviction faster with Figma Make
Product managers at ServiceNow, Ticketmaster, and Affirm are using Figma Make to prototype their way forward.
Our Config 2026 speakers on the biggest opportunities with AI
Here’s a first look at our speakers and how they’re interrogating craft, quality, and intention in an AI-powered world.
Workflow lab: AI image tooling and interactive prototyping in Figma
A workflow to try—bringing together precise image editing, Vectorize, and interactive prototypes to move from concept to crit to completion faster.
Building frontend UIs with Codex and Figma
With Codex to Figma, teams can bring real, running interfaces into Figma to explore, refine, and make decisions together, then bring it back to Codex with design context intact.
Redefining impact as a data scientist
Not all impactful data science work involves experiments or optimization. Sometimes it’s about making complex systems legible, correct, and safe to operate.
The future of design is code and canvas
For the best ideas to move forward, we need the power of code and the canvas. Claude Code to Figma is just one way we’re giving builders more choice.
From Claude Code to Figma: Turning production code into editable Figma designs
Now you can take workflows that start in Claude Code even further in Figma.
Why demand for designers is on the rise
Our latest study suggests that AI is driving renewed momentum in design hiring. We unpack why that is, what hiring managers prioritize, and which skills designers need to get ahead.
For the love of craft: Vectorize images in Figma
With our new AI image editing tool, Vectorize, you can turn raster images into editable vectors, allowing you to tweak, refine, and scale designs directly in Figma.
Figma achieves C5 accreditation, strengthening cloud security for customers across the DACH region
Figma achieves C5 accreditation, strengthening cloud security for customers across the DACH region.