Figma Articles

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Culture•2026-01-07

Issue no.14: Software is culture

This issue explores how software, design, and AI are deeply intertwined with culture across multiple domains.

Figma

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Culture•2026-01-07

Software is culture

This piece reflects on how software has evolved from a tool behind glass to an intimate part of human experience, and where AI is taking it next.

Figma

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Product•2026-01-05

Press start: How controllers shaped video game design—and where interfaces may go next

This article explores how game controllers have shaped video game interface design over the past 50 years, written by a UX designer working on Fortnite at Epic Games.

Figma

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Product•2026-01-05

Meet the maker: Kelsey Fairhurst’s irresistibly bold flatware

This article profiles Kelsey Fairhurst, founder of Forks Plus, who designs and manufactures handcrafted stainless steel flatware with a "softline brutalist" aesthetic.

Figma

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AI•2026-01-05

Cooking with constraints: A designer’s framework for better AI prompts

This article presents a designer's framework for writing more effective AI prompts, drawing an analogy between cooking preparation and prompt engineering.

Figma

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Product•2025-12-16

Prototypes are the new PRDs

Figma's PM team shares how interactive prototypes built with Figma Make are replacing traditional PRDs across exploration, validation, and decision-making stages.

Figma

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Culture•2025-12-16

Chat, are we cooked? How language has become the new metric of virality

Linguist Adam Aleksic discusses how social media algorithms are transforming language, slang, and cultural identity in an interview with Figma.

Figma

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Product•2025-12-12

Hard problems are still hard: A story about the tools that change and the work that doesn't

A Figma designer-turned-product manager reflects on seven years of building prototyping tools and how AI is reshaping that work.

Figma

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AI•2025-12-11

Turn your prompts into visual assets and slide decks with the Figma app in ChatGPT

Figma is expanding its ChatGPT app integration to support generating visual assets and slide decks in addition to FigJam diagrams.

Figma

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Product•2025-12-11

Figma Make is now available in Figma for Government

Figma Make is now available in Figma for Government, enabling federal teams to build interactive prototypes within a FedRAMP Moderate-authorized environment.

Figma

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Product•2025-12-10

Introducing three new tools for precise image editing in Figma

Figma introduces three new AI-powered image editing tools—Erase object, Isolate object, and Expand image—alongside a new image editing toolbar.