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4 min readAt 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 use AI credits, but they're free to create and edit on paid plans until November 4.
UI/UX, Web
· 4 min read
4 min readAs 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
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3 min readMuse for Small Business connects Meta's AI agent to Canva, Figma, Shopify, and a long list of other work tools, which means some of your small-business clients may soon be making on-brand graphics by chatting with it.
Brand & Graphic
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6 min readFigma 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
· 6 min read
3 min readThree 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
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4 min readDeveloper 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
· 4 min read
4 min readAcross 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
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4 min readDesigner 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
· 4 min read
2 min readA 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
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