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2026 167

  1. The TL;DR on Figma Weave: Make your creative process repeatable
  2. How we’re training a Figma-fluent editing model
  3. Making something human: 4 things we took away from Config India
  4. Source material: "BRAT" Art Director Brent David Freaney finds design inspiration from everyday life
  5. 6 ways teams are experimenting with code layers
  6. How to put your design system to work with the Figma agent
  7. How Lufthansa Systems prototypes realistic maps for the cockpit with Figma Make
  8. Source material: Designer Ben Ganz on pushing the limits of what we can do
  9. Profiles & interviews
  10. See everything
  11. Figma deepens investment in India with largest international Config yet
  12. Build by design: New workflows for new ways of building
  13. Design together with code layers on the canvas
  14. Introducing Specs: Markdown as a medium
  15. Create, ship, and manage data-backed websites with Payload in Figma
  16. NewsGet the latest on all things Figma
  17. Config
  18. Figma Make
  19. Product updates
  20. Source material: Creative director Manon Macasaet’s spirituality shapes her process
  21. Tips & inspiration
  22. 4 team rituals that drive AI adoption
  23. AI
  24. Maker Stories
  25. Sightlines issue no.3: Raise the bar for how teams use AI
  26. Sightlines
  27. Thought leadership
  28. 3 ways product designers use the Figma agent for craft, speed, and creative expression
  29. Workflow lab: Staying in the flow with Figma’s agent
  30. How to lighten design system upkeep with the Figma agent
  31. Design systemsEverything you need to know about building and scaling design systems in the age of AI
  32. Case study
  33. Figma agent
  34. Figma Design
  35. Working Well
  36. Workflow lab: From design system to campaign in Figma Weave
  37. Figma Weave
  38. Figma invests in the UK with expanded London office
  39. What it takes to build great products now
  40. Product management
  41. The power of product-based learning
  42. Career & education
  43. Source material: Graphic designer Aitana Picó wants us to appreciate bad trends
  44. Try these 5 Weave tools—and share your own
  45. Source material: Artist and educator Zach Lieberman likes to break things
  46. Figma launches data residency in Japan
  47. Issue no.18: Show your work
  48. The Long & Short of It
  49. Source material: Creative technologist Marisa Chentakul is tired of calling things “slop”
  50. How Coinbase used Code Connect to guide agents and shrink token costs
  51. Figma MCP
  52. Behind the build: Generative plugins and shaders at Figma
  53. Behind the scenes
  54. Plugins & tooling
  55. How do you actually measure the impact of AI on design?
  56. Source material: i-D Magazine’s editor in chief is not afraid of visual chaos
  57. Branding
  58. Research
  59. Workflow lab: Moving between design and code with agents
  60. Figjam
  61. Sightlines issue no.2: What leaders need to know about building agents
  62. How to move fast toward the right thing
  63. Try these 10 skills—and show off your own
  64. Measuring time savings from Figma Make
  65. Better code, fewer tokens: The benefits of Code Connect in MCP
  66. Dev Mode
  67. Code, craft, and the making of nested folders
  68. Collaboration
  69. AI fluency isn't the finish line
  70. A properties panel and annotations, now in Figma Make
  71. Prototyping
  72. How we secure Figma’s internal systems with agents
  73. Engineering
  74. Security
  75. Digital tools, human expression: The visual identity behind Config 2026
  76. Design
  77. How Figma stays ahead of vulnerabilities with agents
  78. Sightlines issue no.1: Insights from Config
  79. Workflow lab: Deploying designs directly with Figma Make
  80. How Decagon uses AI for design system saturation
  81. How to keep design teams steady through constant change
  82. GPT-5.6 is now available in Figma Make
  83. 7 questions we had going into Config Leadership Collective
  84. Issue no.17: Build with joy
  85. Building accessibility into a canvas-based product
  86. Got skills? Make the Figma agent a better collaborator
  87. Trust you can verify: Figma is now ISO 42001 certified
  88. Accessibility
  89. Start Anywhere, a magazine by Figma
  90. Meet the artists behind Figma’s Season 5 collection
  91. Load more
  92. Config 2026: New materials, new tools and a more expressive canvas
  93. Code on the Figma canvas
  94. Connecting Figma and Weave
  95. Introducing Figma Motion: Your canvas now has a timeline
  96. Figma’s design agent, now with custom tools and greater context
  97. Figma's 2026 AI report: Can AI help us collaborate better?
  98. Principles in motion
  99. What does the future of software look like?
  100. 3D design
  101. Motion
  102. Report
  103. Ui ux
  104. Inside Figma
  105. Insights
  106. Direct every frame with Runway Aleph 2.0, now in Figma Weave
  107. Speaking the language of color
  108. 4 ways we’re using our MCP server at Figma
  109. Figma Slides
  110. Improving performance in the layers panel
  111. Steal this template: Bring a user persona to life with Figma Weave
  112. You never stop cultivating taste
  113. 4 new ways to go from idea to product with AI tools
  114. Figma Make, now on your local code
  115. Design thinking
  116. Issue no.16: Trust the process
  117. What matters when anyone can build
  118. 7 tips for using Figma Make credits more efficiently
  119. Productivity
  120. The Figma design agent is here
  121. A new chapter: Friends of Figma’s brand refresh tells the story of a global community
  122. What the design-to-code loop unlocks
  123. PGKeeper: Building the bouncer we needed for Postgres
  124. Infrastructure
  125. Workflow lab: Expanding the canvas with Figma MCP
  126. How to design agentic tools for work
  127. FigJam is now your coding agent’s whiteboard too
  128. Diagramming
  129. How AI leaders are borrowing from the design playbook
  130. Leadership
  131. The TL;DR on MCP: Why context matters and how to put it to work
  132. Strategy
  133. Turning prompts into five scalable workflows with Figma Weave
  134. How Figma AI tools helped us bring extra delight to the canvas
  135. Build with more context and more control in Figma Make
  136. 6 designs that reimagine how we interact with software
  137. Figma's next-generation data caching platform
  138. Agents, meet the Figma canvas
  139. How we rebuilt the foundations of component instances
  140. Design’s influence is expanding, and here’s why that feels hard
  141. Issue no.15: The state of design
  142. 5 design skills to sharpen in the AI era
  143. Vishal Kapoor’s 10 rules for building honest products with AI
  144. How to supercharge your design system with slots
  145. 3 ways product teams are building conviction faster with Figma Make
  146. Our Config 2026 speakers on the biggest opportunities with AI
  147. Events
  148. Workflow lab: AI image tooling and interactive prototyping in Figma
  149. Building frontend UIs with Codex and Figma
  150. Redefining impact as a data scientist
  151. The future of design is code and canvas
  152. From Claude Code to Figma: Turning production code into editable Figma designs
  153. State of the Designer 2026: Designers are leaning into the messy middle
  154. Why demand for designers is on the rise
  155. Hiring
  156. For the love of craft: Vectorize images in Figma
  157. Figma Draw
  158. Figma achieves C5 accreditation, strengthening cloud security for customers across the DACH region
  159. Think outside of the box—with Claude and FigJam
  160. Brainstorming
  161. Show don't tell: Embed Make prototypes everywhere you work in Figma
  162. The new business case for design systems
  163. Issue no.14: Software is culture
  164. Software is culture
  165. Press start: How controllers shaped video game design—and where interfaces may go next
  166. Meet the maker: Kelsey Fairhurst’s irresistibly bold flatware
  167. Cooking with constraints: A designer’s framework for better AI prompts

2025 140

  1. Chat, are we cooked? How language has become the new metric of virality
  2. Culture
  3. Prototypes are the new PRDs
  4. Hard problems are still hard: A story about the tools that change and the work that doesn't
  5. Turn your prompts into visual assets and slide decks with the Figma app in ChatGPT
  6. Figma Make is now available in Figma for Government
  7. Figma Buzz
  8. Introducing three new tools for precise image editing in Figma
  9. Updates to AI credits in Figma
  10. Figma expands support for India with local data hosting and new governance tools
  11. Double click: What does it mean to be a designer in the age of AI?
  12. Version control: One founder’s mission to save local farms with Figma Make
  13. Creativity meets precision with Google's Nano Banana Pro
  14. 5 shifts redefining design systems in the AI era
  15. Gemini 3 Pro is now available in Figma Make
  16. Figma opens a new hub in India to support our growing community of builders
  17. ServiceNow and Figma launch strategic collaboration to turn design vision into enterprise transformation
  18. Issue no.13: All systems go
  19. Introducing Figma Weave: The next generation of AI-native creation at Figma
  20. Schema 2025: Design systems for a new era
  21. Three new features to help build brand momentum with Figma Buzz
  22. Visibility at scale: How Figma detects sensitive data exposure
  23. Marketing
  24. Design systems: From the basics to big things ahead
  25. 15+ ways we’re improving accessibility in Figma
  26. 4 ways for design teams to chart new territory with Figma Make
  27. 6 winning Figma Makes—and what you can learn from them
  28. Turn your ChatGPT brainstorms into FigJam diagrams
  29. Bringing Figma Make to the canvas
  30. Why you should care about design context
  31. Design context, everywhere you build
  32. The branding for Intercom’s AI summit looks like an alien superbloom
  33. Figma rendering: Powered by WebGPU
  34. Quality & performance
  35. Free association: Production designer Jeremy Hindle on building Severance
  36. Is the app layer where AI proves its value?
  37. Issue no.12: New roles, new rules
  38. Are roles and responsibilities a thing of the past?
  39. The anatomy of a summer campaign: How Instacart staged a sick ’90s throwback
  40. How to harness skills that AI can’t automate
  41. How to build a resilient design team
  42. Operations
  43. Why is corpcore suddenly such a thing?
  44. IDC study says the global workforce engaged in software design is expanding
  45. Version control: How Figma Make helped us figure out video playback
  46. Forrester analyzes the ROI of Dev Mode
  47. The anatomy of an activation: How Figma Commons brought design to the public
  48. 8 tips for designers building branded templates in Figma Buzz
  49. Getting into the groove: How music shaped the scatter brushes in Figma Draw
  50. Design systems and AI: Why MCP servers are the unlock
  51. Who says design needs a mouse?
  52. The Duolingo method: Collaboration as a core practice
  53. Figma's IPO: Design is everyone's business
  54. Figma Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
  55. A tale of two parameter architectures—and how we unified them
  56. Figma Announces Increase in Initial Public Offering Price Range
  57. The making of a product icon
  58. Prompt, prototype, perfect: Figma Make is now available to all users
  59. Figma deepens roots in Australia with local data hosting and more
  60. Mike Krieger and Luis von Ahn join Figma’s Board of Directors
  61. Figma Announces Launch of Initial Public Offering Roadshow
  62. Why development leaders are investing in design
  63. In good company: How retailers use Figma to elevate e-commerce
  64. How we shaped the visual identity for Config 2025
  65. Rolling out Santa without freezing productivity: Tips from securing Figma’s fleet
  66. Figma moves closer to its community with Latin American Spanish localization
  67. Figma Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering
  68. Bill McDermott joins Figma’s Board of Directors
  69. 6 skills every engineer needs for the AI era
  70. In good company: How agencies are transforming client collaboration
  71. 7 moments that shaped Figma, as told by Dylan Field
  72. Supporting faster file load times with memory optimizations in Rust
  73. Welcoming Payload to the Figma team
  74. What they’re not teaching in design class—and what you can do about it
  75. Issue no.11: Made with love
  76. 8 essential tips for using Figma Make
  77. Bill Atkinson’s 10 rules for making interfaces more human
  78. Double click: What does MCP mean for agentic AI?
  79. Introducing our MCP server: Bringing Figma into your workflow
  80. From multi-day latency to near real-time insights: Figma’s data pipeline upgrade
  81. Andrew “Boz” Bosworth's 10 rules for navigating the next design paradigm
  82. Double click: Does efficiency kill love?
  83. Figma launches Brazilian Portuguese localization, expanding global reach
  84. Config 2025 launches deepen Figma’s design capabilities as its platform expands
  85. Practice, a book on design and craft by Figma
  86. Introducing Figma Make: A new way to test, edit, and prompt designs
  87. Express yourself with Figma Draw
  88. 24 artifacts that define craft
  89. Figma Buzz is where design and marketing teams co-create
  90. Config 2025: Pushing design further
  91. Publish your designs on the web with Figma Sites
  92. Figma Sites
  93. How Headspace built an AI companion that fosters trust and transparency
  94. How Polaroid is building its next era of innovation
  95. How Figma helps you learn Figma
  96. Figma's 2025 AI report: Perspectives from designers and developers
  97. The art of art direction
  98. The power of play
  99. Version control: How a UX writer weighs one word against another
  100. Version control: Three ways Figma explored horizontal scrolling
  101. Figma localizes product and support for Korean market
  102. Issue no.10: Skill share
  103. Figma has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 with the SEC
  104. Finding a forever home for FigPals
  105. How to streamline your design system workflow in Figma
  106. Double click: You can just do things—but should you always?
  107. Designing for security and usability: Figma's modern endpoint strategy
  108. Why design is for everyone
  109. The designer’s handbook for developer handoff
  110. What makes designers and developers happy at work?
  111. Figma localizes product and support for Spanish market
  112. Everything you need to know about Figma for Government
  113. Making the move to UI3: A guide to Figma’s next chapter
  114. How teams tap into the power of design with Figma Slides
  115. Karri Saarinen’s 10 rules for crafting products that stand out
  116. In Conversation: Dylan Field and Garry Tan on design, AI, and the power of “locking in”
  117. How eBay built a bridge between brand and product with Figma
  118. From screen to zine: Meet the makers using Figma for digital DIY
  119. Why everyone can (and should) be a great storyteller
  120. Save time on building decks—without sacrificing design
  121. Double click: When coding becomes conversation
  122. In good company: How publishers use Figma to help design the news
  123. Typography
  124. Meet the makers defining tech’s next chapter
  125. Design system 104: Making metrics matter
  126. Double click: Human takes on agentic AI
  127. Sustainability Week at Figma: An inside look at our climate efforts
  128. Social impact
  129. Issue no.9: Memos for the future
  130. Design system 103: Design system documentation that drives adoption
  131. A first look at Config 2025: Two cities, one global community
  132. The rise of the generalist
  133. Six memos for the future of digital creation
  134. Making space for a handmade web
  135. Why developers should embrace creative coding again
  136. The new competitive moat is emotion
  137. It’s time we expand our definition of design
  138. When to off-road the product roadmap
  139. The best advice to bring to work in 2025
  140. Meetings

2024 87

  1. 27 FigJam activities to spark creativity in the classroom
  2. Updates to our pricing, seats, and billing experience
  3. Issue no.8: What we shipped
  4. Figma 2024: We shipped it, you shaped it
  5. Pablo Sánchez’s 7 rules for designing the unexpected
  6. The making of the Figma Pattern Library
  7. Why devs should play an active role in design
  8. 8 ways to craft an unforgettable Config talk
  9. Updating our web system for a new era
  10. How we built AI search in Figma
  11. Made in Figma: The National Park Service goes from paper to pixels
  12. Issue no.7: Building better
  13. The infrastructure behind AI search in Figma
  14. The search for speed in Figma
  15. Figma on Figma: Our approach to designing UI3
  16. Building a better First Draft for designers
  17. The VS Code method: Tightening a developer’s inner loop
  18. Figma on Figma: Evolving our visual language
  19. Just our type: The story of creating Figma Sans
  20. Breaking in: A guide to landing your first product design role
  21. A year with Dev Mode: 10 lessons from an engineering manager
  22. How Crunchyroll clarified confusing workflows with Dev Mode
  23. The three Cs of Figma: A beginner’s guide to success
  24. The Atlassian method: The power of developer joy
  25. How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months
  26. Issue no.6: The prompt
  27. How HP powers up design handoff with Dev Mode
  28. An update on our Make Designs feature
  29. Crafting the visual identity for Config 2024
  30. Why are we so afraid of code as a commodity?
  31. What is good design in the age of AI?
  32. Should robots be building our homes?
  33. Can we reach beyond the echo chamber?
  34. Are we finally entering the age of androids?
  35. Inside the redesigned Figma, where your work takes center stage
  36. What is minimum viable data?
  37. Config 2024 in review
  38. Welcome to The Prompt
  39. Meet Figma AI: Empowering designers with intelligent tools
  40. Stack the deck with Figma Slides
  41. Making Figma work better for freelancers and agencies
  42. What would you ask if no one could judge you?
  43. AI + design: Navigating the promise and pitfalls of AI
  44. Issue no.5: Come together
  45. What’s happening at Config 2024?
  46. Charmaine Lee’s 10 rules for building developer tools that feel like magic
  47. Drafts are changing—here’s what you need to know
  48. The Linear method: Opinionated software
  49. Speeding up file load times, one page at a time
  50. Unlocking the power of Code Connect: Best practices for design systems teams
  51. Keeping it 100(x) with real-time data at scale
  52. Craft and beauty: The ROI of marrying form and function
  53. The evolution of Figma’s mobile engine: Compiling away our custom programming language
  54. Speeding up C++ build times
  55. Issue no.4: Find your framework
  56. What we launched at Framework
  57. Alaska Airlines reaches new heights with the help of variables
  58. How Carvana fuels consistency and scale
  59. The right code for your design system
  60. Codegen plugins (and other tips) for automating design to code
  61. The future of design systems is marketing
  62. The anatomy of a component sprint
  63. Design system 102: How to build a design system
  64. Surf the web like it’s 1999 with these old-school cursors
  65. Join us for Framework by Figma: Our global design systems event
  66. AI + design: Figma users tell us what’s coming next
  67. 23 prototyping resources to bookmark right now
  68. How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale
  69. How we built a custom permissions DSL at Figma
  70. Behind the feature: The multiple lives of multi-edit
  71. How we engineer feedback at Figma with eng crits
  72. Behind the feature: Inline device frames
  73. Meet the maker: Nicole Boettcher’s Figma-designed quilts
  74. How AI will influence creative tools: A conversation with Replit’s David Hoang
  75. 5 things designers need to know for a smooth handoff
  76. The anatomy of a Super Bowl ad
  77. Design system 101: What is a design system?
  78. How to plug in and power up your designer-developer handoff with Figma and Jira
  79. An insider’s guide to a seamless Figma migration
  80. Everything you need to know about Dev Mode
  81. The art and science of annotations in Dev Mode
  82. Peter Yang’s 10 rules for making products that customers love
  83. Six myths holding you back from embracing design systems
  84. What’s next for Dev Mode: annotations, compare changes, plugins, and more
  85. Improving performance with incremental frame loading
  86. Issue no.3: The handoff
  87. How Razorpay sharpened developer workflows

2023 79

  1. Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger
  2. When net zero isn’t enough: Deepening our commitment to climate action by investing in the future
  3. Issue no.2: Rework your work
  4. Enforcing device trust on code changes
  5. Why cultivating a prototyping culture will help you build better products
  6. Top 10 things we shipped this year
  7. Figma’s 2023 Handoff
  8. From Slack-lash to Toggle Tax: The new vernacular of work
  9. Shipping hype: PMs on what it takes to bring AI features to market
  10. Tap into shortcuts with a new custom keyboard from Figma x Work Louder
  11. Come together: A multiplayer guide to great meetings
  12. The art of the professional pivot
  13. 36 questions to fall (back) in love with tech
  14. All your questions about variables answered (and a few you didn’t even know you had)
  15. Building a design system that breathes with Headspace
  16. Dev Mode: Building a design tool that works harder for developers
  17. The Figma + Adobe deal, explained
  18. Config 2024: Designing a better conference
  19. Are designers happy? Our new “State of the Designer” report aims to find out
  20. Little Big Updates: When going big actually means thinking small
  21. Three Creator Fund projects to know and love
  22. Introducing AI to FigJam
  23. Storyboarding the future of design and creativity
  24. How Figma’s data science and user research teams weave together insights that count
  25. Figma participates in TISAX assessment for the European automotive industry
  26. Server-side sandboxing: Containers and seccomp
  27. Server-side sandboxing: An introduction
  28. Server-side sandboxing: Virtual machines
  29. Figma's commitment to FedRAMP
  30. Shishir Mehrotra’s 10 rules for leading great team meetings
  31. Dan Mall’s 10 principles for a worthy design career
  32. Unlocking the power of an inclusive classroom with Figma’s open canvas
  33. Transforming design education for Japan’s K-12 students
  34. EU hosting for Figma and FigJam files
  35. What codegen is (actually) good for
  36. Issue no.1: Break out of the box
  37. Work has changed. New research tells us why and what we might do about it
  38. Meet the nonprofit training formerly incarcerated people for careers in UX design
  39. Creating coherence: How Spotify’s design system goes beyond platforms
  40. Keeping Figma fast
  41. Give ideas more space with Jambot
  42. Dev Mode fast follows: 200+ new features and fixes
  43. Is the New Deal for business leading by design?
  44. Navigating the intersection of design and business: A conversation with Airbnb’s Brian Chesky
  45. Is your work style written in the stars?
  46. Running up that hill: Creativity, AI, and the human pursuit of uphill thinking
  47. The future of design systems is semantic
  48. Throwing curveballs: Shopify’s secret for staying ahead of the game
  49. The anatomy of launching a Figma open beta
  50. The shared language of props
  51. Paula Scher’s 10 rules for play
  52. How Thumbtack structures their design system
  53. React
  54. Explore the value of play through a new zine made in collaboration with It’s Nice That
  55. Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode
  56. AI: The next chapter in design
  57. Building a digital-first future for every student
  58. Config 2023: Reimagining where teams design and build together
  59. Why roles are not rules
  60. Introducing Shortcut, Figma’s new blog
  61. What’s happening at Config 2023?
  62. How a Figma slide deck helped indie rock duo Tanlines launch a comeback
  63. Four years in, here’s what Config tells us about the state of design
  64. Announcing FigJam screen reader support
  65. The future of design systems is accessible
  66. How Figma draws inspiration from the gaming world
  67. How to build ground-breaking products: A manager’s guide
  68. The growing pains of database architecture
  69. Little Big Outtakes
  70. How our design team level set on career leveling
  71. Leading a dream team: A manager’s guide to unlocking your team’s potential
  72. Raising the (table) stakes on tables in FigJam
  73. Creators need creators
  74. Meet the maker: Marcin Wichary
  75. The future of design systems is automated
  76. Behind the scenes: international keyboard shortcuts
  77. Can design make work, work?
  78. How Pinterest’s design systems team measures adoption
  79. The future of design systems is complicated

2022 48

  1. How Linear made the most of a DDoS
  2. Figma Persona 2022: What’s your creative collaboration style?
  3. How Magician uses Figma’s text review API
  4. Welcome to the WIP
  5. A conversation with Figma's accessibility team
  6. Feedback is a gift: Introducing Figma’s feedback gift guide
  7. Taking cues from code
  8. The right jams for your jam
  9. Making multiplayer more reliable
  10. Our approach to security at speed
  11. How we use data
  12. Behind the feature: Find and replace
  13. A sneak peek at Schema 2022
  14. The outsized role culture plays in attracting design talent
  15. What’s new in Figma: September 2022
  16. Designing in the cloud with confidence
  17. A new collaboration with Adobe
  18. What’s new in Figma: August 2022
  19. Collaboration’s next chapter with Microsoft’s Jon Friedman
  20. My summer as a Figtern
  21. Little Big Updates: More improvements for design and collaboration
  22. What’s new in Figma: July 2022
  23. Illuminating dark mode
  24. Digital design is now a real job
  25. What’s new in Figma: June 2022
  26. How Figma put the bounce in spring animations
  27. Postmortem: Service disruptions on June 6 & 7 2022
  28. Figma and Chromebook: Empowering the next generation of designers
  29. Full-scale expression with Grilli Type
  30. A look back at Config 2022
  31. A step forward in our accessibility efforts
  32. Figma Community Awards 2022
  33. Config 2022: Thinking big and acting with urgency
  34. The power of emoji: An interview with Jennifer Daniel
  35. What’s new in Figma: April 2022
  36. Good ideas stick
  37. What’s new in Figma: March 2022
  38. Localization, languages, and listening
  39. The art and influence of motion
  40. FigJam for iPad: Space to explore and ideate
  41. Our response to Ukraine
  42. What’s new in Figma: February 2022
  43. Jamming on FigJam: A journey from beta to GA
  44. Design needs everyone: new plans for companies that design together
  45. Little Big Updates: 32 fixes and features for a better workflow
  46. Little Big Updates: Dispatches from Quality Week
  47. From experiment to launch: how data shaped a new comments experience
  48. The year ahead: a conversation with Soleio, Julie Zhuo, and May-Li Khoe

2021 58

  1. Frame 2021: Design by the numbers
  2. What’s new in Figma: December 2021
  3. The Figma prototype challenge: 15 tips in 15 days
  4. What’s new in Figma: November 2021
  5. Stay in the flow with redesigned comments
  6. Behind the build: a Q&A with developer Gavin McFarland
  7. From candidate interviews to developer crits: How Figma Engineering uses FigJam to scale
  8. Behind the build: a Q&A with developer Tekeste Kidanu
  9. Behind the build: a Q&A with developer Tru Narla
  10. What’s new in Figma: October 2021
  11. Interactive components: Less wiring, more inspiring
  12. ​​Open sessions: jam with anyone, anywhere
  13. Introducing new FigJam prices and a more open platform
  14. GraphQL, meet LiveGraph: a real-time data system at scale
  15. How (and why) we built branching
  16. What’s new in Figma: September 2021
  17. How Elsewhen builds digital products for their clients
  18. Announcing Schema, Figma’s design systems conference
  19. Inside Figma: getting out of the (secure) shell
  20. Talk it out in Figma and FigJam
  21. Figma for students and educators
  22. What’s new in Figma: August 2021
  23. FIT’s principles for fostering a collaborative classroom
  24. Rethinking a design thinking workshop for good
  25. Bringing the power of our open platform to FigJam
  26. Building a more collaborative design process
  27. Inside Figma: a Q&A with our 2021 interns and new grads
  28. Securing internal web apps
  29. A Q&A with Figma’s VP of Product
  30. 30 updates: recent features and fixes in Figma
  31. How the Figma PM team builds products and processes
  32. Inside Figma: a Q&A with our global sales team
  33. Keeping creativity flowing when times are tough
  34. Behind the plugin: Cards for Humanity
  35. Introducing Figma’s New York City hub
  36. How News UK developed a multi-brand design system
  37. Figma's Series E
  38. The five stages of an effective brainstorm
  39. Collaborating and connecting in FigJam
  40. Inside Figma: How our product management team uses FigJam
  41. Pride 2021: Getting back out there
  42. Embracing the mess at Config 2021
  43. Q&A with Dantley Davis
  44. In the file at Config 2021
  45. Inside Maker Week: more than a hackathon
  46. Shifting team culture at Config 2021
  47. Q&A with Robyn Kanner
  48. Introducing branching: space to iterate and explore freely
  49. Coming together at Config 2021
  50. Introducing FigJam
  51. How Repsol rethinks the way the world interacts with energy
  52. About Figma’s new Starter plan
  53. Behind the feature: building multi-account
  54. Behind the scenes of creating the official Figma kit for Tailwind UI
  55. Completing a transit map
  56. By the numbers: One year of remote work
  57. Behind the feature: comments, contextually
  58. Inside Figma: tips from the team that builds Figma

2020 64

  1. Inside Figma: a case study on strict null checks
  2. Redesigning Dropbox’s ways of working
  3. Meet us in the browser
  4. Adding it all up: The math behind designing your career
  5. Behind the feature: the making of the new Auto Layout
  6. Bridging design and code with Variants
  7. Behind the feature: The hidden challenges of autosave
  8. How Kimberly-Clark brings your favorite paper products into your home
  9. Learning and failing as a team
  10. Reflections on Figma’s inaugural Student Fellowship
  11. Power up your design system with Figma’s agency partners
  12. Creating moments of connection
  13. Building an open and inclusive design process
  14. When fonts fall
  15. Six integrations to help your product team collaborate in Figma
  16. Inside Figma: my time as a new grad
  17. The many dimensions of trust in design
  18. Embracing the tension between code and design
  19. On pitching and presenting
  20. Figma’s new EMEA HQ
  21. Making Design Within Reach for online shoppers
  22. Creating multi-brand design systems
  23. Enterprise, explained
  24. React at 60fps: improving scrolling comments in Figma
  25. How we use Figma templates to facilitate collaboration at Shopify
  26. An open letter about my gap year
  27. How work is changing at Figma
  28. Explore the Figma Community
  29. Reflections on a remote internship
  30. Announcing Config Europe: a call for speakers
  31. Behind the feature: shedding light on shadow spread
  32. A deep dive on deep search
  33. How BT, a 174-year-old company, continues to push the telecommunication industry forward
  34. How Clearstep simplifies the experience of finding care online
  35. How to evaluate design tools
  36. How to get closer with your developer
  37. Beyond mocks: co-designing journeys, diagrams, and more
  38. The making of Maker Week
  39. Bringing live Figma embeds to your team’s favorite tools
  40. Finding design inspiration at home
  41. How to pair design (and convince your boss to invest in it)
  42. How our product design team works
  43. Figma’s Series D round
  44. Bridge design and development with the new Zeplin integration
  45. Bringing Figma to even more classrooms
  46. The case for lightweight prototyping
  47. How Inneract Project empowers the next generation of brown and black designers
  48. 11 activities in Figma for your classroom
  49. Figma + Lambda School: Where the remote classroom comes together to learn
  50. Look no further: New ways to search and provide context in Figma
  51. Research, remotely
  52. Building on our open platform: Design in Figma, prototype with Framer
  53. Keeping that tight-knit feeling, at a distance
  54. How Students Who Design set up Figma in their online classroom
  55. How to run a remote brainstorm
  56. Extend what’s possible with plugins for you and your team
  57. Finding confidence in design decisions
  58. The Dropbox guide to building creative culture
  59. Reflections on Config, our first user conference
  60. New ways to create, collaborate, and share more openly
  61. Test designs early and often with the new Maze integration
  62. Postmortem: Service disruption on January 21-22, 2020
  63. Figma on Figma: How we built our website design system
  64. Bringing the community together in Figma

2019 58

  1. Measuring the value of design systems
  2. Made in Figma, 2019: Design by the numbers
  3. The decade of design: How the last 10 years transformed design’s role in tech
  4. Design more, resize less, with Auto Layout
  5. Humanity at work: Gusto brings a new brand to life with Figma
  6. Under the hood of Figma’s infrastructure: Here’s what goes into powering a web-based design tool
  7. Opening up the data behind your design systems
  8. Let’s create Figma’s first user conference together
  9. Beyond multiplayer: Building community together in Figma
  10. How Figma’s multiplayer technology works
  11. Bringing new life to Figma’s brand
  12. Customer journey mapping with Figma
  13. Wireframing
  14. Designing for top feature requests, like Smart Animate
  15. An update on plugin security
  16. How a designer makes background patterns to push her creativity
  17. Plugin Show & Tell—Some highlights
  18. An ode to OpenType: Fall in love with the secret world of fonts
  19. From Figma's design team: How to run a design critique
  20. How Microsoft built plugins to improve their workflow
  21. Keeping your data in Figma safe and secure: SOC 2 Type 2, SSO, and more
  22. Plugins to help you design with real content
  23. How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night
  24. Design for everyone with these accessibility-focused plugins
  25. How to wireframe
  26. 5 utility plugins to speed up your workflow
  27. The birth of Inter: How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be
  28. How to run a design sprint
  29. Automate work. Bring in real data. Extend what’s possible with Figma Plugins.
  30. Behind the Plugins: Jackie Chui, UX Designer @ Microsoft
  31. Behind the Plugins: Matt DesLauriers, Generative Artist & Creative Coder
  32. Behind the Plugins: Yitong Zhang, Product Designer @ Coinbase
  33. Behind the Plugins: Tiffany Chen, UX Designer @ Microsoft
  34. Behind the Plugins: Sam Mason de Caires, UX Engineer @ Cloudflare
  35. A step-by-step guide to using Figma for retrospectives
  36. Product design portfolio tips from a Figma recruiter
  37. Bring Figma prototypes to life with GIFs
  38. What’s new on DesignSystems.com: June roundup
  39. What’s new recap: Component updates, plugins beta, and other goodies
  40. Plugins are coming to Figma
  41. Proto GP: 5 ways to level up your prototyping workflow
  42. Looking to improve your Figma workflow? Check out our updated user forum
  43. Getting to the bottom of line height in Figma
  44. GitHub takes its collaborative culture to a new level
  45. Reintroducing DesignSystems.com
  46. We refreshed Figma's UI: An inside look at our process
  47. #FigmaTip Roundup: Spring cleaning edition
  48. Pairing is the key to evangelizing your design system
  49. Introducing Figma Time Travel
  50. Now you can open links in the Figma desktop app
  51. Dribbble scores with live design collaboration for its completely remote team
  52. The power of Figma Drafts
  53. Design on a deadline: How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure
  54. Bulb shines bright with Solar as its design system
  55. Figma raises $40MM Series C round led by Sequoia
  56. Introducing Figma Organization: our first enterprise-grade offering
  57. Figma's engineering values
  58. Organize photo galleries, presentation slides and more with Smart Selection 2D

2018 71

  1. State of Design Systems 2018
  2. Designing an open financial system at Coinbase
  3. Deliveroo serves up fast designs for a mouth-watering delivery experience
  4. How we built the Figma design team
  5. Our path to creating a precise PDF Exporter
  6. Introducing Overlays—taking Prototyping to the next layer
  7. Zoom streamlines the design workflow with Figma
  8. Nominate photography for the 2018 Unsplash Awards
  9. 5 ways to structure your workflow with Pages in Figma
  10. Using constraints & “magic numbers” to build responsive layouts in Figma
  11. Creating atomic components in Figma
  12. Figma year in review: 2018
  13. Designers use Figma to bring Uber to the unbanked
  14. Animate your Figma designs with our new Principle integration
  15. Google’s AR Design Guidelines suffice while Apple’s fall short
  16. Introducing Smart Selection
  17. Figma's New Finger Tips
  18. We made a mistake with our API Challenge, and we’re sorry
  19. Introducing: Figma’s first API Challenge
  20. Multiplayer, IRL
  21. How Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Talent’s Design team leverages Figma’s API to empower designers
  22. Aisle Rocket Studios, the agency behind Whirlpool, masters remote collaboration
  23. Figma Feature Highlight: Component Overrides
  24. Figma Feature Highlight: Sketch Import
  25. The University of the Arts London’s Accidental Path to a Design System
  26. The finale of Prototyping Week: Interactions
  27. #FigmaTip Roundup 10.0
  28. Learn how a Microsoft designer built an internal Icon Library in his spare time
  29. With Figma’s new SVG Exports, less = more
  30. Figma, faster 🏎
  31. Designer Q&A: Camellia Neri’s five catalysts for creativity
  32. Why transparent open design leads to happier clients
  33. On the road: How two designers got rid of their hardware baggage
  34. Master the art of design portfolios with this free online Skillshare class
  35. Figma feature highlight: Observation Mode
  36. How Kiwi.com handles project structure, versioning, and components in Figma
  37. Introducing: Design Dictionary from Figma
  38. #FigmaTip Roundup 9.0
  39. Art of Listening: One designer's foray into experiential design
  40. Figma 3.0 (!)
  41. How one designer motivates others to build more ethical products
  42. A Sketch user’s perspective on switching to Figma
  43. How one designer finds inspiration in rabble rousers like Bart Simpson
  44. #FigmaTip Roundup 8.0
  45. With websites, what comes first: The copy or design?
  46. How one Figma engineer plays to her strengths: music, programming and cycling
  47. How Virta Health uses Figma to help patients reverse type 2 diabetes
  48. How you can design end to end on a Chromebook
  49. Five ways to use Figma that you probably never thought of
  50. Material Design + Figma Styles = 🔥
  51. Figma Styles beta: A new way to apply text and layer attributes
  52. Rust in production at Figma
  53. Introducing: Figma to React
  54. Want Figma API inspiration? Here's 8 community powered projects
  55. 5 steps to nailing your portfolio presentation in design interviews
  56. FigmaTip Roundup 7.0
  57. How Figma helped Sounds app reach 150k likes on Facebook
  58. Desperately seeking squircles
  59. Introducing: Figma’s Platform
  60. Now you can name and annotate your Figma version history
  61. How to hit the road as a UI/UX digital nomad
  62. Figma prototyping: now with transitions
  63. With love, from Figma: @mentions and file sorting
  64. Web design without a web designer? Xfive turns to Figma.
  65. FigmaTip Roundup 6.0
  66. Figma raises $25MM Series B
  67. Figma announces design system meetups in 6 cities around the world
  68. Figma Quality Week: Inside our bug bashing party
  69. #FigmaTip Roundup 5.0
  70. How to convince your team to switch to Figma
  71. How Figma Transformed This Berkeley Design Class

2017 47

  1. 18 designers predict UI/UX trends for 2018
  2. Stitch Fix accelerates design sprints by collaborating in Figma
  3. #FigmaTip Roundup 4.0
  4. More time, more money: How Figma accelerates agency workflows
  5. How to build your design system in Figma
  6. Advanced Project Permissions for design systems
  7. Introducing DesignSystems.com
  8. 5 international cities with up-and-coming UI/UX design communities
  9. Introducing: Figma Pages
  10. 10 UI/UX Design Internships Figma Users Swear By
  11. Figma Now Integrates with Zeplin
  12. Why Professors at Stanford and UC Berkeley Use Figma to Teach Design
  13. How to throw a design-friendly hackathon
  14. ICYMI: An Overview of Figma’s Feature Release Week
  15. FigmaTip Roundup 2.0
  16. Discover Hidden Functionalities with #FigmaTip Roundup 1.0
  17. This Twitter storm shows design systems are still up for debate
  18. Introducing Figma’s Live Embed Kit
  19. Team Library 1.0
  20. Introducing Live Embed of Figma designs in Trello & Jira Software
  21. Figma + Dropbox Paper
  22. Happy Emoji Release Day at Figma 🎉
  23. Figma 2.0: Now with Prototyping and Developer Handoff
  24. Photo Filters Come To Figma
  25. Introducing BrowserView for Electron
  26. Figma now has Guides
  27. Meet the design pioneers taking on the venture world
  28. New design conference Vectors sold out in 2 days for a great reason
  29. WebAssembly cut Figma's load time by 3x
  30. How One Pivotal Designer Escaped the Export-upload Abyss
  31. 5 essential ways to use design constraints
  32. How Braintree cut time spent on design critiques by 50%
  33. Reflecting on Figma’s First Year
  34. Introducing two-factor authentication for Figma
  35. Are hackathons the answer to the tech designer shortage?
  36. This website shows that to find talented female designers, you just need to look
  37. Introducing Figma Mirror for Android
  38. New faces at the Figma helm
  39. 5 books that shaped the design approach of Airbnb’s Jem Gold
  40. An alternative approach to rate limiting
  41. Figma’s new icon
  42. Deciding whether to learn code wasn’t always such a weird rite of passage
  43. The 6 design trends John Maeda predicted in his state of the union
  44. Did Snapchat succeed because of its controversial UI?
  45. Realtime editing of ordered sequences
  46. Can designers make a political difference?
  47. Team Libraries in Figma

2016 8

  1. Components in Figma
  2. Delete and Heal for Vector Networks
  3. Debugging Data Corruption with Emscripten
  4. Multiplayer Editing in Figma
  5. Introducing Figma’s Integration with Framer
  6. How to do content design / UX writing in Figma
  7. Introducing Vector Networks
  8. From furniture to screens

2015 4

  1. Slack From the Start
  2. Grid Systems for Screen Design
  3. Building a professional design tool on the web
  4. Design: Meet the internet