What Figma shipped in May 2026

The PM field guide for the AI era

Figma publishes a field guide aimed at product managers navigating the AI era, positioning itself as a thought leader in the space.

The business value of design systems

Figma published a report highlighting the business impact and value of design systems, aimed at educating users and stakeholders on their strategic importance.

How to integrate AI into an app without slowing your team down

Figma published a guide detailing a six-step framework for integrating AI into apps, emphasizing API-first approaches, data audits, and phased rollouts. It highlights four AI types (ML, NLP, computer …

Is your design system ready to scale?

Figma publishes a report or guide assessing the readiness of design systems to scale, likely offering insights, best practices, or frameworks for design teams.

Using AI in product management: how to build, align, and ship faster

Figma details how AI enhances product management by preserving context across research, prototyping, and stakeholder communication. Tools like FigJam AI and Figma Make enable faster synthesis of user …

Design system scaling: How to avoid common mistakes at scale

Figma published a guide on their resource library outlining best practices for scaling design systems and avoiding common pitfalls.

UX validation: How to stress-test your designs early

Figma published a guide on UX validation techniques to test designs early in the development process, emphasizing stress-testing for robustness.

Design tokens: How to sync design and code in Figma

Figma launched a design token system using its Variables feature to unify design and code workflows. Tokens are organized into primitive, semantic, and component layers, enabling real-time updates acr…

Top Web design trends for 2026

Figma’s 2026 web design trends guide spotlights immersive 3D/AR elements, experimental navigation, vibrant colors, bold typography, and AI-driven chatbots. It emphasizes sustainability, accessibility,…

Understanding button states in UI design

Figma published a resource library guide explaining how to design and implement button states (e.g., default, hover, pressed, disabled) in user interfaces.

7 AI for A/B testing tools to ship winning designs

Figma’s resource library article outlines how AI is transforming A/B testing workflows by automating variant generation, rapid prototyping via Figma Make, and seamless integration with experimentation…

AI usability testing guide: Modern workflow and tools

Figma’s guide explains how AI is transforming usability testing by automating tasks like recruiting, transcription, and reporting, enabling faster iteration. It outlines a three-step workflow—prototyp…

The ROI of better design <> developer alignment

Figma publishes a report highlighting the financial benefits of improved design and alignment with developers.

The Push & Pull of AI + Design

The Push & Pull of AI + Design English Dev Mode Figma Make APAC Designer Developer Marketer Product Engineer Design system AI MCP Server Workflow In this session, we speak to industry leaders on how t…

Pricing change detected for Figma

Pricing updated for Figma: - Organization - Full seat: annual price $46/mo → $

Pricing updated for Figma: - New tier: Professional - Full seat ($16/mo per user ($13/mo annually, 20% off)) - New tier: Professional - Dev seat ($12/mo per user ($10/mo annually, 20% off)) - New tier

4 new ways to go from idea to product with AI tools

Figma unveiled four new AI-driven workflows to accelerate product development, including code-backed prototyping, AI-assisted design exploration, and seamless transitions between design and code via M…

Visually edit your codebase with Make

May 28, 2026 Visually edit your codebase with Make New release Figma Make AI Desktop app Design Development Copy link May 28, 2026 Visually edit your codebase with Make New release Figma Make AI Deskt…

Figma Make, now on your local code

Figma Make now allows direct visual edits to production codebases from within Figma, enabling designers to modify layouts, colors, and properties while maintaining Git workflows. A new Figma-specific …

Pricing updated for Figma: - New tier: Professional (Full seat) ($55/mo per seat ($16/mo annually, 8% off)) - New tier: Professional (Dev seat) ($25/mo per seat ($12/mo annually, 8% off)) - New tier:

Pricing updated for Figma: - Professional - Collab seat: annual price $2.50/mo → $2/mo - Organization - Full seat: annual price $45.83/mo →

How Chello streamlines delivery across clients and continents with Figma

Chello, a Sydney-London creative agency, adopted Figma as its core delivery system, enabling 99% of workflows across strategy, design, and production. The shift eliminated context switching, reduced o…

How PhonePe brings speed and reliability to 700+ million users with Figma

PhonePe adopted Figma as its central design system to support three distinct design systems across its ecosystem, enabling faster handoffs, real-time developer visibility via Dev Mode, and AI-driven w…

Issue no.16: Trust the process

Figma’s latest editorial issue introduces new AI-powered tools like MCP (Model Context Protocol) and Figma Weave to streamline design-to-code workflows, emphasizing craft and direction amid rapid AI a…

Bulk edit in Figma Buzz

May 22, 2026 Bulk edit in Figma Buzz New release Figma Buzz Assets Copy link May 22, 2026 Bulk edit in Figma Buzz New release Figma Buzz Assets Copy link Bulk edit and resize campaign assets at scale …

7 tips for using Figma Make credits more efficiently

Figma published guidance on using its Figma Make prompt-to-code tool more efficiently, emphasizing structured initial prompts, manual edits for small changes, reusable guidelines and skills, and exter…

Do more with grid

May 22, 2026 Do more with grid New release Update Figma Design Assets Websites Copy link May 22, 2026 Do more with grid New release Update Figma Design Assets Websites Copy link Grid is generally avai…

What matters when anyone can build

Figma argues that AI's ability to democratize product building shifts competitive advantage from speed to deliberate direction and craft. Teams must explore multiple ideas in parallel, validate end-us…

The Figma design agent is here

Figma introduced a native AI agent built directly into its canvas and left rail, designed to work alongside designers for exploration, bulk edits, and feedback processing. The agent leverages deep con…

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

Figma unveiled a brand refresh for its Friends of Figma program, a global network of 250+ chapters in 82 countries, to better reflect local identities while maintaining a cohesive identity. The new vi…

Sections in Figma Slides

May 18, 2026 Sections in Figma Slides New release Figma Slides Collaboration Copy link May 18, 2026 Sections in Figma Slides New release Figma Slides Collaboration Copy link Figma Slides now has secti…

How to use Figma when code is your source of truth

Figma announced a webinar exploring how AI is transforming designer-developer workflows, emphasizing maintaining quality and consistency as code generation accelerates. The session highlights Figma's …

What the design-to-code loop unlocks

Figma highlights new AI capabilities collapsing the divide between design and code, enabling designers to generate functional wireframes from code and developers to import live product states into Fig…

From silos to speed: How Plaid unified product and brand design in Figma

Plaid shares how they unified product and brand design using Figma, highlighting collaboration and speed improvements.

Office Hours: Using your code on Figma Make

Figma announced a webinar focused on integrating design system code with Figma Make to improve prototype consistency and reduce rework. The session will cover techniques for aligning prototypes with c…

Get started with Figma Weave

Figma announced a webinar demonstrating how to build generative AI workflows using Figma Weave, a node-based canvas for connecting prompts, AI models, and editing tools to produce scalable outputs. Th…

Custom skills in Make

May 11, 2026 Custom skills in Make New release Figma Make Copy link May 11, 2026 Custom skills in Make New release Figma Make Copy link Skills are markdown files that outline the conventions and workf…

Pricing updated for Figma: - Professional - Full seat: allowance changed from Ful

How Figma Make helps the design team shape decisions at Accor

Accor’s design team used Figma Make to rapidly prototype a conversational travel vision, enabling real-time collaboration and strategic alignment. The tool reduced production time and elevated design’…

Pricing updated for Figma: - Professional - Full seat: annual price $13/mo → $16/mo - Professional - Full seat: allowance changed from Full

PGKeeper: Building the bouncer we needed for Postgres

Figma built PGKeeper, a custom connection and load management service, to replace PgBouncer for their growing Postgres workloads. PGKeeper introduces gRPC-based request handling, priority-based admiss…

Design once, reuse everywhere: How NAB unified design at enterprise scale with Figma

NAB consolidated 65 onboarding pathways and multiple component libraries into a single design system called Elevate using Figma Enterprise. The system enabled one-time design creation with reusable co…

Product updates

Figma introduced several AI-powered features, including an MCP server for workflow integration, new image editing tools, and expanded capabilities for FigJam and Figma Make. Key updates include AI-dri…

Faster file transitions on desktop

Figma introduced faster file transitions in its desktop app, reducing interruptions when moving between files. Links open in-place, recent work is easily searchable, and next files load preemptively.…