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Design systems can power more than just designs. This workflow shows you how to turn raw materials into brand campaign collateral using the Gen Effect and Figma nodes.

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What it takes to build great products now

September 24, 2026

By Paige Costello

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.

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AI
Thought leadership
Product management

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The power of product-based learning

September 23, 2026

By David Curran

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.

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Career & education
Tips & inspiration

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
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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.

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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

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

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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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