News, workflows, and honest takes on AI for product designers, from design systems and prototypes to handoff.
20 articles
5 min read· 5 min read
Since September, thread after thread on both forums has been about AI entry points that pop up uninvited and are hard to dismiss. The fixes exist, but they're buried, and some people want a lot more than a hidden setting.
UI/UX, Photo & Imaging
3 min read· 3 min read
Agent-made vectors now come with sensibly grouped layers and real strokes for line work, and you can attach your own illustrations as a style reference. Here's what that changes, and what Figma hasn't said yet.
Illustration, UI/UX
4 min read· 4 min read
Framer's Convert add-on now works with the Framer Agent, so you can ask it to build, edit, and analyze A/B tests, funnels, and triggers. Convert also picked up country-based triggers, and a rebuilt Agent harness gives outside agents the same reach through MCP.
Web, UI/UX
4 min read· 4 min read
Research docs, spreadsheets, and images can now feed straight into a Figma prompt, even on Starter. It's handy, but the setting that decides what the agent can do on its own deserves a minute of your time first.
UI/UX
3 min read· 3 min read
A new importer turns old .fla and XFL files into Rive projects: symbols become artboards, frame labels become state machine states, and buttons, tweens, and sounds carry over.
UI/UX, Motion & Video
4 min read· 4 min read
Framer's official MCP server connects outside AI tools straight to your projects. The agent can edit the canvas, manage CMS content, and publish, and nothing needs to be open or installed on your machine.
Web, UI/UX
4 min read· 4 min read
At Config India, Figma opened code-backed prototypes on the canvas to everyone and introduced Specs, a Markdown document that lives next to your designs and can be handed to a coding agent. Code layers were free to create and edit on paid plans through November 4, and now use AI credits.
UI/UX, Web
3 min read· 3 min read
Google opened up its newest frontier model on October 13, and Figma Make got it the same day. In the Gemini app it's for paying subscribers only, but in Figma Make it's listed for all plans. Figma warns that credit use for non-default models can vary a lot.
UI/UX, Web
6 min read· 6 min read
FigJam can group a wall of interview stickies by topic and write a summary of each pile in seconds. Pulling together Figma's docs, a competing approach in Miro, and what researchers have found when they test these tools, here's how to use that speed without letting it make your calls.
UI/UX
4 min read· 4 min read
As of October 6, the agent in Figma Design is generally available, with library guidelines written in markdown, file search inside chat, and a catch: it no longer runs for free.
UI/UX
6 min read· 6 min read
Figma can build custom shader fills and effects from a plain-language prompt, including animated and cursor-reactive ones. Pulling together Figma's docs, independent write-ups, and forum threads, here's how to use them and where they still fall short.
UI/UX, Web
3 min read· 3 min read
Three months into its open beta, Figma Motion picked up the features that take it from something to experiment with to something a team can standardize on: reusable styles you publish to a library, audio on the timeline, and Lottie output.
UI/UX, Motion & Video
4 min read· 4 min read
Developer Vishwas Gopinath's write-up on connecting Claude Code to Figma's MCP server still holds up as a technique, though Figma has since replaced his exact setup steps with a plugin-based flow. Here's why it's worth doing and where Figma's current instructions actually live.
Web, UI/UX
3 min read· 3 min read
Independent essays published months apart keep landing on the same diagnosis: AI design and coding tools converge on the same look, and the fix is deliberate constraint, not a better prompt.
UI/UX, Web
4 min read· 4 min read
Across months of threads on Figma's community forum, the same pattern keeps showing up: Figma Make's credit system charges for the corrections its own AI output makes necessary, and people are running out fast.
UI/UX, Web
4 min read· 4 min read
Designer Roberto Moreno Celta's published breakdown of why most Figma variable setups collapse, and the naming and handoff workflow he uses instead to keep design and code actually in sync.
Web, UI/UX
3 min read· 3 min read
The Adobe for Claude plugin now handles PDFs and lets you step into a layer-based Express editor yourself, while Photoshop, Lightroom, Express, and Firefly tools arrive in Google Gemini.
Brand & Graphic, UI/UX
2 min read· 2 min read
A new 'Figma node' lets you paste a Design frame straight into Weave, so it becomes a live, on-brand source that AI workflows can build on at scale.
Brand & Graphic, UI/UX, Motion & Video
3 min read· 3 min read
Framer's Skills feature lets you save reusable instructions, for a design system, a writing style, or a CMS workflow, that its AI agent follows across tasks instead of you re-explaining your conventions every time.
Web, UI/UX
2 min read· 2 min read
Agent Instructions, Webflow's context files for AI agents working on a site, can now be generated from a site you've already built, covering brand voice, design system, assets, and CMS content.
Web, UI/UX, Brand & Graphic