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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
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Tips & inspiration

Catch up on Config 2026

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Collage-style product graphic showcasing AI-assisted design and development workflows, with plugin creation prompts, visual effect controls, code generation tools, and interactive UI components arranged across a creative workspace.

Config 2026: New materials, new tools and a more expressive canvas

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
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Motion

Introducing Figma Motion: Your canvas now has a timeline

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
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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

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
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Code on the Figma canvas

By Nikolas Klein

With code layers in Figma Design, you can explore multiple directions with code, side by side with your team.

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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

By Itay Schiff

Today, we’re announcing new ways your Weave creative workflows can live alongside your Figma frames.

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Product updates
Figma Weave
Config
AI
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Meet the artists behind Figma’s Season 5 collection

June 29, 2026

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.

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Behind the scenes
Culture
Config
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How to keep design teams steady through constant change

July 9, 2026

Drawing on her time at Patreon and Shopify, design leader Jen Dunnam offers her advice for this new age of AI—from building a strong team to how to think about speed.

Insights
Config
Thought leadership
AI
Sightlines

7 questions we had going into Config Leadership Collective

July 3, 2026

We showed up to Leadership Collective hoping to learn how leaders are guiding their teams through change, what expertise means now, and how they're keeping quality high as the pace picks up. Here's what we heard.

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Config
AI
Thought leadership
Sightlines

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.

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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.

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Product management
Thought leadership

Principles in motion

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

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

The Gemini Enterprise team shares their approach to making complex, multi-agent workflows feel simple, intuitive, and trustworthy.

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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

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?

Our community imagines how AI might bring about more human ways to interact with software.

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AI
UI/UX
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Design

Insights on software

Figma's 2026 AI report: Can AI help us collaborate better?