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What’s new from Config 2026

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

June 24, 2026

Push past what you thought was possible with code layers, Figma Motion, shaders, generative plugins and Weave tools, all on the canvas.

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Introducing Figma Motion: Your canvas now has a timeline

June 24, 2026

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.

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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

June 24, 2026

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.

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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

June 24, 2026

By Itay Schiff

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

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Code on the Figma canvas

June 24, 2026

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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Digital tools, human expression: The visual identity behind Config 2026

July 27, 2026

By Matt Alagiah

Here’s how Figma’s Brand Studio designed a conference that captured the very human ways we remix and reinvent when working with AI tools.

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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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GPT-5.6 is now available in Figma Make
July 9, 2026
By Gui Seiz
With accurate first results and fast iterations, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 gives your builds a strong start in Figma Make.
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Figma Make, now on your local code
May 28, 2026
By Iris Lin, Jesse Lumarie
From visual editing to contextual prompting and collaboration, Figma Make is expanding how teams can design with code.
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Dylan Field and Garry Tan in conversation

The question is not just, can you make it work? It’s how it works that actually matters.

Dylan Field, Co-founder and CEO, Figma

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Figma MCP: Connect to the canvas

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4 ways we’re using our MCP server at Figma

June 16, 2026

By Mari Kong

The Figma MCP server reaches further across the platform than it ever has. From updating a living deck to shipping a design to production—here's what that looks like in practice.

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Workflow lab: Expanding the canvas with Figma MCP

April 30, 2026

By Brett McMillin

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.

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FigJam is now your coding agent’s whiteboard too

April 28, 2026

By Caroline Okun

Agents are changing your code faster than your team can follow. Now you can close that gap with new MCP skills, architecture layouts, and more in FigJam.

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

April 15, 2026

By Emma Webster

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.

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Agents, meet the Figma canvas

March 24, 2026

By Matt Colyer

Starting today, you can use AI agents to design directly on the Figma canvas. And with skills, you can guide agents with context about your team’s decisions and intent.

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Building frontend UIs with Codex and Figma

February 26, 2026

By Yarden Katz

With Codex to Figma, teams can bring real, running interfaces into Figma to explore, refine, and make decisions together, then bring it back to Codex with design context intact.

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From Claude Code to Figma: Turning production code into editable Figma designs

February 17, 2026

By Gui Seiz, Alex Kern

Now you can take workflows that start in Claude Code even further in Figma.

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A new chapter: Friends of Figma’s brand refresh tells the story of a global community

May 19, 2026

By Jordan Scott

From São Paulo to Seoul, Friends of Figma chapters around the world are distinct, vibrant, and locally rooted. Our new brand gives them a more authentic way to express themselves.

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Technical deep dives

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Improving performance in the layers panel

June 11, 2026

By Shannen Wu, Peter Hayes

The layers panel is the central blueprint of a Figma file. We rearchitected it with new computation and caching strategies, resulting in 30–50% faster interactions in some of the largest, most complex files.

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PGKeeper: Building the bouncer we needed for Postgres

May 4, 2026

By Lihao He, Tim Goh, Mehant Baid

This is the story of why and how we built PGKeeper, a scalable and reliable service to support Figma’s rapidly growing products and database workload.

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Infrastructure

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Figma's next-generation data caching platform

March 25, 2026

By Kevin Lin

Scalability and reliability gaps in our Redis platform were a growing threat to Figma's site availability. This is the story of how we built FigCache, a foundational technology that underpins a reimagined internal platform for ephemeral data.

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Engineering
Infrastructure

How we rebuilt the foundations of component instances

March 17, 2026

By Naomi Jung

By replacing a decade-old architecture with a reactive foundation, we made common operations in large design systems up to 50% faster and unlocked a new way to build dynamic features.

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Engineering

Figma rendering: Powered by WebGPU

September 18, 2025

By Alex Ringlein, Luke Anderson

We’ve updated our renderer to use WebGPU, unlocking new performance optimization opportunities. Here’s how we did it.

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Quality & performance

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A tale of two parameter architectures—and how we unified them

July 29, 2025

By Jenning Chen

After launching variables and component properties in quick succession, we were left with two different underlying architectures for parametrization. Here’s how we unified them for consistency and scalability.

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Design systems

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Canvas, meet code: Building Figma’s code layers

June 25, 2025

By Darragh Burke, Alex Kern

What if you could design and build on the same canvas? Here's how we created code layers to bring design and code together.

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From multi-day latency to near real-time insights: Figma’s data pipeline upgrade

May 29, 2025

By Yichao Zhao

After an exponential growth in users and data, daily synchronization tasks started taking hours or even days to complete. Here’s how rebuilding a data pipeline reduced latency to near real-time.

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Digital tools, human expression: The visual identity behind Config 2026
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Config
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How Figma stays ahead of vulnerabilities with agents
July 23, 2026
By Rohan Sharma, Liam Buchan, Dave Martin
For the past year, agents at Figma have guarded code as it's written, reviewed every pull request, and audited a decade-old monorepo, all on one policy.
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GPT-5.6 is now available in Figma Make
July 9, 2026
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With accurate first results and fast iterations, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 gives your builds a strong start in Figma Make.
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Building accessibility into a canvas-based product
July 1, 2026
By David Winslow, Elynn Lee
Building on a canvas unlocks performance that a traditional HTML web app can't touch. It also strips away any accessibility the browser gives you for free. Here's how we built it back in.
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Trust you can verify: Figma is now ISO 42001 certified
July 1, 2026
By Tushar Badlani
Saying you use AI responsibly is easy, but proving it to an accredited auditor is harder. We decided that was a standard worth meeting.
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Start Anywhere, a magazine by Figma
June 29, 2026
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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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Meet the artists behind Figma’s Season 5 collection
June 29, 2026
By Emma Webster
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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Config 2026: New materials, new tools and a more expressive canvas
June 24, 2026
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
News
Figma agent
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Motion
Code on the Figma canvas
June 24, 2026
By Nikolas Klein
With code layers in Figma Design, you can explore multiple directions with code, side by side with your team.
Inside Figma
Product updates
Figma Design
Config
News
Connecting Figma and Weave
June 24, 2026
By Itay Schiff
Today, we’re announcing new ways your Weave creative workflows can live alongside your Figma frames.
Inside Figma
Product updates
Figma Weave
Config
AI
News
Introducing Figma Motion: Your canvas now has a timeline
June 24, 2026
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
Config
News
Figma’s design agent, now with custom tools and greater context
June 24, 2026
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.
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Product updates
Figma agent
Figma Design
Config
AI
News