May 26, 2026

Issue no.16: Trust the process

Figma

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Between new model drops and agentic tools, how design happens is changing fast.

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To help you bridge the gap, we’re highlighting new workflows and tools that facilitate speed, direction, and craft.

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What’s worth shipping

AI makes it easier than ever for product teams to speed ahead—but the danger is choosing the wrong direction. Figma’s Chief Product Officer Yuhki Yamashita offers ideas about how to combat tunnel vision and resist the “good enough” output, so what you build has a real edge over the competition.

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What matters when anyone can build

If AI can make anyone a product builder, the real edge is knowing what’s worth shipping.

The TL;DR on MCP

Model Context Protocol—MCP for short—lets agentic coding tools pull crucial context from your Figma files and design systems. Here’s how it can amplify your work as a designer or developer, and what you can do to make it even more effective.

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The TL;DR on MCP: Why context matters and how to put it to work

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.

Power up your visuals

Whether you’re working in video, photography, illustration, or 3D effects, the right visuals can make or break your design. And now, with precise AI image editing capability like Figma Weave, you can generate what you need in seconds. To get you started, here are 20+ workflow templates, plus a guide to building out an entire asset library from just two reference images.

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Turning prompts into five scalable workflows with Figma Weave

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.

Roundtripping

Teams are moving fluidly from canvas to code, and code to canvas. What does that unlock for both designers and developers? Figma’s Software Engineer Alex Kern and Design Director of AI Gui Seiz chat about how newfound speed and deeper context can help us raise the bar on craft.

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What the design-to-code loop unlocks

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

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1. Check out how a designer and developer use the Figma MCP server to work out the kinks in a video export flow

Workflow lab: Expanding the canvas with Figma MCP

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.

2. If you’re becoming a Figma Make power user, here are 7 ways to be more efficient

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7 tips for using Figma Make credits more efficiently

While everyone’s talking about “tokenmaxxing,” we’ve compiled seven best practices to help you build smarter—without prompting more—in Figma Make.

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3. Agentic tools for work should keep you focused on your task, not on managing the AI. Here’s how the Gemini Enterprise team took on that design challenge