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Source material: Graphic designer Aitana Picó wants us to appreciate bad trends
September 21, 2026
By Figma
The multidisciplinary designer and artist shares what’s in her “mental database”: an off-putting tarot deck, a Jockstrap CD, and a recurring dream about aerial silks.
Maker Stories
Profiles & interviews
Culture
Tips & inspiration
Source material: Artist and educator Zach Lieberman likes to break things
September 15, 2026
By Figma
The creative coder explains the throughline between drawing and computation, and why he’s jealous of pioneering artist Lillian Schwartz.
Maker Stories
Profiles & interviews
Culture
Tips & inspiration
Source material: Creative technologist Marisa Chentakul is tired of calling things “slop”
September 3, 2026
By Figma
One of the internet’s favorite designers shares why her cyberdeck doubles as a makeup vanity, and the questions she asks herself to get into a creative space.
Maker Stories
Profiles & interviews
Culture
Tips & inspiration
Source material: i-D Magazine’s editor in chief is not afraid of visual chaos
August 28, 2026
By Figma
Thom Bettridge on which magazines have shaped his taste—and what design rule he breaks the most.
Maker Stories
Profiles & interviews
Branding
Culture
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
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
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
Meet the maker: Kelsey Fairhurst’s irresistibly bold flatware
January 5, 2026
By Duncan Nielsen
Brooklyn-based designer Kelsey Fairhurst launched Forks Plus, a “softline brutalist” flatware brand, with the help of Figma.
Maker Stories
Profiles & interviews
Culture
Design
Chat, are we cooked? How language has become the new metric of virality
December 16, 2025
By Jenny Xie
We sat down with linguist Adam Aleksic, author of “Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language,” to learn how algorithms shape not just how we talk, but how we think and relate.
Insights
Profiles & interviews
Culture
6 winning Figma Makes—and what you can learn from them
October 7, 2025
By Emma Webster
Winners from our first global Make-a-thon offer insights on how to prototype smarter, structure products better, and push Figma Make further.
Maker Stories
Design
Profiles & interviews
Tips & inspiration
Figma Make
Free association: Production designer Jeremy Hindle on building Severance
September 15, 2025
By Amber Bravo
From Jacque Tati’s “Playtime” to David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks,” Jeremy Hindle traces the ideas and images that shaped Lumon’s uncanny world.
Insights
Profiles & interviews
Culture