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Show don't tell: Embed Make prototypes everywhere you work in Figma
January 22, 2026
By Nikolas Klein
Today, we’re introducing the ability to embed Figma Make prototypes into Figma Design, FigJam, and Figma Slides, along with new editing tools that help you build and share your best ideas.
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Figma Make
Product updates
AI
Figma Slides
FigJam
Figma Design
Creativity meets precision with Google's Nano Banana Pro
November 20, 2025
By Noah Levin
From quick style variations to precise edits, Nano Banana Pro helps teams stay creative without losing context or brand integrity.
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AI
Design
Figma Make
News
Product updates
Gemini 3 Pro is now available in Figma Make
November 18, 2025
By Loredana Crisan
We ran Gemini 3 Pro through a series of design exercises in Figma Make. Here’s what stood out.
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Figma Make
AI
Product updates
Design
Prototyping
News

Looking back on Config 2025

Config 2025: Pushing design further
May 7, 2025
By Dylan Field
Dylan Field runs down everything we launched at Config 2025 and explains why pushing design further matters more now than ever.
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Config
AI
Design
Prototyping
Branding
Practice, a book on design and craft by Figma
May 7, 2025
By Amber Bravo
What does it take to master craft? Patience, precision, and a willingness to push boundaries.
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Config
Culture
Thought leadership
Design
Writing
How we shaped the visual identity for Config 2025
July 3, 2025
By Matt Alagiah
From giant inflatable glyphs to welcoming soundscapes, Figma’s Brand Studio designed an immersive conference that celebrated the spirit of makership at every turn.
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Branding
Design
Motion
Config
Behind the scenes
Events

Past Config coverage

Dylan Field and Garry Tan in conversation

The question is not just, can you make it work? It’s how it works that actually matters.

Dylan Field, Co-founder and CEO, Figma

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Crowds gather outside the New York Stock Exchange under a large Figma banner during the Figma Commons event.

The anatomy of an activation: How Figma Commons brought design to the public

August 13, 2025

By Emma Webster

On July 31, a huge Figma banner covered the New York Stock Exchange building with a message that read “Design is everyone’s business.” As Figma stepped into its next chapter, we wanted to celebrate in a way that kept that idea front and center.

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Behind the scenes
Culture
Events

Design details decoded

Version control: How Figma Make helped us figure out video playback
August 25, 2025
By Jenny Xie
To get videos working just right in Figma Buzz, Product Designer Natasha Tenggoro used Figma Make to prototype complex ideas when words alone fell short. We show three of them here, prompts and all.
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Prototyping
Design
UI/UX
Motion
Figma Make
Figma Buzz
Version control: How a UX writer weighs one word against another
April 17, 2025
By Henry Freedland
In UX design, a single misplaced verb can lead users astray, frustrating their expectations and creating confusion. That’s why UX Writer Henry Freedland chose his words very carefully when he was brought in to help polish a new prototyping feature.
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Writing
UI/UX
Prototyping
Version control: Three ways Figma explored horizontal scrolling
April 16, 2025
By Jenny Xie
What seemed like a straightforward request—add a horizontal scroll bar to the Layers panel in Figma—presented unexpected challenges. Here’s how the design and engineering teams iterated and prototyped to find the right solution.
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Product updates
Figma Design
Design
Engineering
Prototyping
UI/UX

Technical deep dives

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Figma rendering: Powered by WebGPU

September 18, 2025

By Alex Ringlein, Luke Anderson

We’ve updated our renderer to use WebGPU, unlocking new performance optimization opportunities. Here’s how we did it.

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Engineering
Quality & performance

A whimsical, cartoon-style illustration depicts an orchestra with musicians playing various instruments and a conductor leading them.

A tale of two parameter architectures—and how we unified them

July 29, 2025

By Jenning Chen

After launching variables and component properties in quick succession, we were left with two different underlying architectures for parametrization. Here’s how we unified them for consistency and scalability.

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Engineering
Design systems

A stylized green tree with five window-like panels showing scenes of a person creating and exploring with tools and shapes.

Canvas, meet code: Building Figma’s code layers

June 25, 2025

By Darragh Burke, Alex Kern

What if you could design and build on the same canvas? Here's how we created code layers to bring design and code together.

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Engineering
Figma Sites
AI

Abstract digital artwork featuring distorted, tubular red and blue shapes outlined in green against a dark textured background, transitioning from dense vertical forms on the left to elongated horizontal ones on the right.

From multi-day latency to near real-time insights: Figma’s data pipeline upgrade

May 29, 2025

By Yichao Zhao

After an exponential growth in users and data, daily synchronization tasks started taking hours or even days to complete. Here’s how rebuilding a data pipeline reduced latency to near real-time.

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Engineering
Infrastructure

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Designing for security and usability: Figma's modern endpoint strategy

April 4, 2025

By Lamarr Henry

At Figma, security doesn’t have to slow you down. We’ve designed our corporate endpoint security with UX in mind, making it seamless and self-serve.

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Engineering
Security

Two colorful bowls—one chaotic and overflowing, the other neatly stacked—contain stylized geometric fruits and vegetables.

Supporting faster file load times with memory optimizations in Rust

June 18, 2025

By Raghav Anand

Memory efficiency is essential for a great user experience. To keep files fast and performant, the Figma team is always hunting for optimizations—here are a few.

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Engineering
Quality & performance

The infrastructure behind AI search in Figma

October 15, 2024

By Isaac Goldberg, Maggie Zhou

To build AI search in Figma, we had to tackle a number of technical hurdles, including the challenge of generating and indexing billions of embeddings to power these features—while also keeping costs down.

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Engineering
AI
Infrastructure

The search for speed in Figma

October 10, 2024

By Scott Laird

Our months-long investigation into slow search speeds led to a solution that not only improved performance but also set the foundation for future scale.

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Engineering
Quality & performance
Infrastructure
Behind the scenes

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The future of design is code and canvas
February 17, 2026
By Dylan Field
There isn't just one way to build. 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.
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AI
Product updates
News
Figma Design
Prototyping
From Claude Code to Figma: Turning production code into editable Figma designs
February 17, 2026
By Gui Seiz, Alex Kern
Now you can take workflows that start in Claude Code even further in Figma.
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AI
Product updates
News
Figma Design
Prototyping
For the love of craft: Vectorize images in Figma
February 4, 2026
By Rogie King
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.
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Product updates
Figma Design
Figma Draw
News
AI
Design
Figma achieves C5 accreditation, strengthening cloud security for customers across the DACH region
February 3, 2026
By Figma
Figma is giving customers greater confidence in cloud security and compliance.
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News
Think outside of the box—with Claude and FigJam
January 26, 2026
By Luke Zhang, Khanh Nguyen
With the Figma MCP app in Claude, powered by Anthropic, designers, developers, and product managers can now create AI-generated FigJam diagrams.
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FigJam
Product updates
AI
Diagramming
Brainstorming
News
Show don't tell: Embed Make prototypes everywhere you work in Figma
January 22, 2026
By Nikolas Klein
Today, we’re introducing the ability to embed Figma Make prototypes into Figma Design, FigJam, and Figma Slides, along with new editing tools that help you build and share your best ideas.
Inside Figma
Figma Make
Product updates
AI
Figma Slides
FigJam
Figma Design
Turn your prompts into visual assets and slide decks with the Figma app in ChatGPT
December 11, 2025
By Sean Lee, Megan Bednarczyk
We’re expanding the capabilities of the Figma app in ChatGPT, so you can turn your ideas into creative assets and presentations that you can polish in Figma Buzz and Figma Slides.
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Figma Buzz
Figma Slides
Product updates
News
AI
Figma Make is now available in Figma for Government
December 11, 2025
By Figma
With Figma Make now available in Figma for Government, teams can prototype faster, collaborate securely, and accelerate progress on modernizing public services.
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Figma Make
News
Introducing three new tools for precise image editing in Figma
December 10, 2025
By Marvin Qian
Today we’re introducing three new AI image editing tools that make precision editing faster, cleaner, and more intuitive—powering a more complete creative workflow in Figma.
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News
Product updates
AI
Design
Figma Design
Productivity
Updates to AI credits in Figma
December 9, 2025
By Alicia Xiong
We’re introducing new ways to track your AI credit usage in Figma, and soon you’ll have more ways to buy additional AI credits.
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AI
Product updates
News
Figma expands support for India with local data hosting and new governance tools
December 5, 2025
By Figma
Figma introduces new governance features for enterprise customers, with local data residency expected next quarter.
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News
Creativity meets precision with Google's Nano Banana Pro
November 20, 2025
By Noah Levin
From quick style variations to precise edits, Nano Banana Pro helps teams stay creative without losing context or brand integrity.
Inside Figma
AI
Design
Figma Make
News
Product updates

Inside Figma

Show don't tell: Embed Make prototypes everywhere you work in Figma

Creativity meets precision with Google's Nano Banana Pro

Gemini 3 Pro is now available in Figma Make

Config 2025: Pushing design further

Practice, a book on design and craft by Figma

How we shaped the visual identity for Config 2025

The anatomy of an activation: How Figma Commons brought design to the public

Version control: How Figma Make helped us figure out video playback

Version control: How a UX writer weighs one word against another

Version control: Three ways Figma explored horizontal scrolling

Figma rendering: Powered by WebGPU

More Inside Figma

The future of design is code and canvas

From Claude Code to Figma: Turning production code into editable Figma designs

For the love of craft: Vectorize images in Figma

Figma achieves C5 accreditation, strengthening cloud security for customers across the DACH region

Think outside of the box—with Claude and FigJam

Show don't tell: Embed Make prototypes everywhere you work in Figma

Turn your prompts into visual assets and slide decks with the Figma app in ChatGPT

Figma Make is now available in Figma for Government

Introducing three new tools for precise image editing in Figma

Updates to AI credits in Figma

Figma expands support for India with local data hosting and new governance tools

Creativity meets precision with Google's Nano Banana Pro

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