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From flagship features to little big updates, we take a look at how you shaped what we shipped in 2024.
UI3 prompted us to rebuild our own design system from the ground up. Here’s how designers and engineers came together to create a new foundation for building consistent, accessible products.
The designer of Ableton’s Note app shares unconventional principles for creating unforgettable digital experiences.
UI3 clears space on the canvas for you to bring your creative vision to life. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how we landed on a more streamlined and adaptable interface.
Understand the basics of design systems, what they are, how they work, and how they can change the way you design.
Figma’s visual identity has gotten a bold refresh. From playful primitives to a vibrant new palette, we’re unveiling our latest brand evolution—one that speaks to all product builders.
Overhauling Figma’s interface meant reimagining how designers work. From docked panels to a new labeling system, here’s how we shaped UI3 by balancing user feedback with our vision for the future.
It’s time to build your design system! We’ll walk you through the basics of creating a system tailored to your unique goals and challenges, whether building from scratch or starting with existing pieces.
As Figma expands to include tools for all product builders, our community has evolved—and so has our brand. We’ve overhauled our entire visual identity from color palette to illustration style, and even commissioned a new typeface.
Figma’s Brand Studio tells us how they designed an immersive, dynamic conference experience—all in one Figma file.
Leaders from Stripe, Linear, and Figma explore how craft and beauty are core to product and business growth.
Our nine month journey to horizontally shard Figma’s Postgres stack, and the key to unlocking (nearly) infinite scalability.
We’ve long written core parts of our mobile rendering architecture in Skew, the custom programming language we invented to squeeze additional performance out of our playback engine. Here’s how we automatically migrated Skew to TypeScript without disrupting a single day of development.
Migrating onto Kubernetes can take years. Here’s why we decided it was worth undertaking, and how we moved a majority of our core services in less than 12 months, all while making our compute platform easier to use.
Engineering crits encourage a diversity of perspectives and unblock teams to pursue new ideas. Here’s how we structure and run them at Figma.
When we learned that engineers were losing hours building our C++ codebase, we jumped into investigating the root cause. Here’s how we cut build times in half and shipped a solution for scale.
Figma files are often large and complex with endless pages, library and local components, and prototype screens. Here’s how dynamic page loading improved the slowest load times by 33%.
Large prototypes took minutes to load, and users took notice. Here’s how we overhauled our prototype player to improve load time and stability.
Instead of asking how AI will automate our jobs, we should be focusing on what we, as engineers, uniquely do well. What problems can AI currently solve, and where is the whitespace to go beyond that?
For users on a Starter or Professional team, we’re relocating where your drafts live. Starting this week, you’ll be asked to move your drafts into a team space.
We’re introducing a suite of AI-powered features to help you push past creative blocks and bring your best ideas to life.
Today, we’re introducing annotations to Dev Mode, along with improvements to compare changes, plugins, and the Figma for VS Code extension. Dev Mode will move out of free beta on January 31.
We announced Code Connect for developers, typography and gradient variables, and our Library Analytics API to help you drive design system adoption across your entire organization.
Today, we’re announcing beta for Code Connect, a feature built to improve design system adoption by making code more accessible and useful for developers.
We built Dev Mode to make product development more efficient, from idea to code. Today, Dev Mode moves out of beta. Learn more about our product philosophy, how we’re improving the experience for developers and designers, and what’s next.
Say goodbye to lackluster presentations. Today, we’re announcing the open beta of Figma Slides, here to set a new standard for telling visual stories.
Vice President of Product Sho Kuwamoto and Product Designer Nikolas Klein walk us through the journey of multi-edit, a new feature that simplifies editing across multiple designs in just a few clicks.
2024 Year in Review
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Where do inspirational people find inspiration? Our Config speakers share their favorite talks from 2024, offering up a blueprint for crafting sessions that truly stand out.
We are updating our pricing, seats, and billing experience. Here's what you need to know before changes take effect on March 11, 2025.
Every update in Figma is created in dialogue with our community—how you work and what you create pushes us to make Figma better for you.
Advocating for Dev Mode changed my team’s workflow. Here’s how you can do the same.
Want to see how we used Figma’s latest features to audit and refresh our web system? Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how we streamlined our components, improved our workflows, and built for the future.
How we went from autocomplete to AI search and landed on a tool that’s changing the way designers find and use existing work.
How do you design an app for 431 diverse national parks and monuments? By taking a page from iconic NPS park brochures. Learn how a small team adapted Massimo Vignelli’s seminal design system for a digital interface.
The conversation around developer experience has changed.
To build AI search in Figma, we had to tackle a number of technical hurdles, including the challenge of generating and indexing billions of embeddings to power these features—while also keeping costs down.