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Slots give you the ability to customize components without breaking the system. We’re sharing five field-tested tips from early users to help you unlock more freedom without giving up control.

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3 ways product teams are building conviction faster with Figma Make

March 4, 2026

By Emma Webster

From communicating complex behaviors to pushing the edges of an idea, product managers at ServiceNow, Ticketmaster, and Affirm are using Figma Make to prototype their way forward.

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Building frontend UIs with Codex and Figma

February 26, 2026

By Yarden Katz

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.

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Our Config 2026 speakers on the biggest opportunities with AI

March 3, 2026

By Rose McLucas

Here’s a first look at our speakers and how they’re interrogating craft, quality, and intention in an AI-powered world.

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Software is culture: From user behavior to human behavior

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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.

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Press start: How controllers shaped video game design—and where interfaces may go next

January 5, 2026

By Aashrey Sharma

Aashrey Sharma, a UX designer at Epic Games, shares what video game navigation can teach us about building the next generation of interfaces.

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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.

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Why is corpcore suddenly such a thing?

September 4, 2025

By Darius Rafieyan

From vintage Apple tees fetching hundreds on Grailed to Supreme-level lines at tech conferences, it seems like software swag has upped its swag factor. Here’s why wearing your app on your sleeve has gone from cringeworthy to cool.

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Cooking with constraints: A designer’s framework for better AI prompts

January 5, 2026

By Greg Huntoon

Design and cooking share a truth: Preparation determines the outcome. Structured prompts turn AI from guesswork into a reliable design partner.

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Hard problems are still hard: A story about the tools that change and the work that doesn't

December 12, 2025

By Nikolas Klein

Figma designer–turned–product manager Nikolas Klein worked on building prototyping tools for seven years. Then AI changed the game.

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Version control: One founder’s mission to save local farms with Figma Make

November 26, 2025

By Matt Alagiah

Factory farms and rising costs are putting British Columbia’s small growers out of business at an alarming rate. To fight back, entrepreneur Aaron Veale used Figma Make to build a marketplace app that helps farmers sell their produce—all in a matter of weeks.

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Hard problems are still hard

It’s not just about getting an idea out. It’s about getting it right. That takes curiosity, conviction, and expertise.

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State of the Designer 2026: Designers are leaning into the messy middle
February 12, 2026
By Madeline Stafford
Our State of the Designer report explores how designers around the world are upleveling their skills, keeping craft high, and turning new pressures into creative momentum.
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Why demand for designers is on the rise
February 10, 2026
By Andrew Hogan
In the AI era, companies need designers more than ever. In fact, our latest study suggests that AI is actually driving renewed momentum in design hiring. We unpack why that is, what hiring managers are prioritizing, and which skills designers need to get ahead.
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Are roles and responsibilities a thing of the past?
September 10, 2025
By Andrew Hogan, Matt Walker
For years, the boundaries between product development roles have become less defined. Our latest report quantifies this shift and explores what it means for you and your team.
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How to supercharge your design system with slots
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By Zoë Adelman, Sarah Kelly
Slots give you the ability to customize components without breaking the system. We’re sharing five field-tested tips from early users to help you unlock more freedom without giving up control.
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3 ways product teams are building conviction faster with Figma Make
March 4, 2026
By Emma Webster
From communicating complex behaviors to pushing the edges of an idea, product managers at ServiceNow, Ticketmaster, and Affirm are using Figma Make to prototype their way forward.
Maker Stories
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Our Config 2026 speakers on the biggest opportunities with AI
March 3, 2026
By Rose McLucas
Here’s a first look at our speakers and how they’re interrogating craft, quality, and intention in an AI-powered world.
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Workflow lab: AI image tooling and interactive prototyping in Figma
February 27, 2026
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A workflow to try—bringing together precise image editing, Vectorize, and interactive prototypes to move from concept to crit to completion faster.
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Building frontend UIs with Codex and Figma
February 26, 2026
By Yarden Katz
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.
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Redefining impact as a data scientist
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Not all impactful data science work involves experiments or optimization. Sometimes it’s about making complex systems legible, correct, and safe to operate.
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The future of design is code and canvas
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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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From Claude Code to Figma: Turning production code into editable Figma designs
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Now you can take workflows that start in Claude Code even further in Figma.
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State of the Designer 2026: Designers are leaning into the messy middle
February 12, 2026
By Madeline Stafford
Our State of the Designer report explores how designers around the world are upleveling their skills, keeping craft high, and turning new pressures into creative momentum.
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Why demand for designers is on the rise
February 10, 2026
By Andrew Hogan
In the AI era, companies need designers more than ever. In fact, our latest study suggests that AI is actually driving renewed momentum in design hiring. We unpack why that is, what hiring managers are prioritizing, and which skills designers need to get ahead.
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For the love of craft: Vectorize images in Figma
February 4, 2026
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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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Building frontend UIs with Codex and Figma

Our Config 2026 speakers on the biggest opportunities with AI

Chat, are we cooked? How language has become the new metric of virality

State of the Designer 2026: Designers are leaning into the messy middle

Why demand for designers is on the rise

Are roles and responsibilities a thing of the past?

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How to supercharge your design system with slots

3 ways product teams are building conviction faster with Figma Make

Our Config 2026 speakers on the biggest opportunities with AI

Workflow lab: AI image tooling and interactive prototyping in Figma

Building frontend UIs with Codex and Figma

Redefining impact as a data scientist

The future of design is code and canvas

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

State of the Designer 2026: Designers are leaning into the messy middle

Why demand for designers is on the rise

For the love of craft: Vectorize images in Figma

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

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