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With work moving more fluidly between code and canvas, workflows aren’t just changing—they’re converging.

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Workflow lab: Expanding the canvas with Figma MCP

April 30, 2026

As teams build faster, design and code can drift apart just as quickly. This workflow shows how to close that gap—bringing real product states onto the canvas so designers can shape what actually ships.

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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.

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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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Design’s influence is expanding, and here’s why that feels hard
March 17, 2026
By Andrew Hogan
As AI accelerates creation and raises expectations, designers are navigating a field that’s bigger, faster, and more demanding than ever.
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5 design skills to sharpen in the AI era
March 10, 2026
By Madeline Stafford
Our latest research highlights the skills designers need to meet the moment.
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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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PGKeeper: Building the bouncer we needed for Postgres
May 4, 2026
By Lihao He, Tim Goh, Mehant Baid
This is the story of why and how we built PGKeeper, a scalable and reliable service to support Figma’s rapidly growing products and database workload.
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Workflow lab: Expanding the canvas with Figma MCP
April 30, 2026
By Brett McMillin
As teams build faster, design and code can drift apart just as quickly. This workflow shows how to close that gap—bringing real product states onto the canvas so designers can shape what actually ships.
Working Well
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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.
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UI/UX
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FigJam is now your coding agent’s whiteboard too
April 28, 2026
By Caroline Okun
Agents are changing your code faster than your team can follow. Now you can close that gap with new MCP skills, architecture layouts, and more in FigJam.
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How AI leaders are borrowing from the design playbook
April 21, 2026
By Andrew Hogan
A new class of leaders is leaning on design principles to guide their companies through AI transformation.
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The TL;DR on MCP: Why context matters and how to put it to work
April 15, 2026
By Emma Webster
Figma’s MCP server brings your design decisions into the tools where code gets written—so what gets built actually matches what was designed. Here’s what that unlocks for everyone who builds products.
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Turning prompts into five scalable workflows with Figma Weave
April 9, 2026
By Itay Schiff, Kim Köhler
To build upon a visual language with AI, you need to harness the logic behind each prompt—building, editing, and directing how visuals come to life. Here, we share five creative workflows that show the breadth of what the Figma Weave canvas can do.
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How Figma AI tools helped us bring extra delight to the canvas
April 8, 2026
By Madeline Stafford
For our annual April Fun Day, we used Figma Make, Weave, and MCP to build six mini games that captured the spirit of play. Here’s what we learned.
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Build with more context and more control in Figma Make
April 2, 2026
By Ben Smit, Darragh Burke
Starting today, Make kits and Make attachments bring context into Figma Make, so prototypes start from real components, data, and constraints.
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6 designs that reimagine how we interact with software
April 1, 2026
By Emma Webster
From a multiplayer embroidery sampler to a photo booth that works across time zones, this year's Make-a-thon winners offer new ways to connect, reflect, and play through software.
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Figma's next-generation data caching platform
March 25, 2026
By Kevin Lin
Scalability and reliability gaps in our Redis platform were a growing threat to Figma's site availability. This is the story of how we built FigCache, a foundational technology that underpins a reimagined internal platform for ephemeral data.
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