Save the date: Config 2027 is set for May 25–27 at Pier 80 in San Francisco, in person and virtual. Speaker applications are open until November 16.

On the All-In podcast, Dylan Field takes back his own Config prediction: ​“I said the ceiling will be raised by AI… That was wrong.” AI lowers the floor for making code, motion, and design, but the ceiling only rises when designers ​“choose to focus, invest their time, and to be bold.” With exponentially more software and flat app usage, that is now where products differentiate.

Harvey treats its Figma like a codebase: Agentic Brand Guidelines act as the top-level AGENTS​.md, and each project folder adds only what it needs. On top of that, agents script, voice with ElevenLabs, and build hundreds of personalized films inside Figma Motion — one batch of 36 took 69 minutes.

At the first Config India in Bengaluru, Dylan Field framed the launches around two ways of building: building to think and building to ship. Code layers go to open beta, Specs bring Markdown to the canvas, design systems get guidelines and code sources, and Make can scaffold a Payload backend. ​“Don’t delegate your thinking to AI. You need to think.”

Figma VP of Design Noah Levin sums up the shift: ​“June’s Config themes were around Tools and Materials (Motion, Shaders, Plugins, Weave, etc). This time around, it’s all about Context and Workflows (Code Layers, Design Systems, Specs, Payload)”. His thread walks through each, including why Specs exist: ​“So much of good design is good writing, thinking, and planning.”

Jayneil Dalal live-threaded 18 takeaways from Config India, from shipping PRs out of Figma and the code layer terminal to system check and passing specs to Codex with one link.

Figma designer advocates Brett McMillin and Kaitie Chambers take static museum app screens to a finished launch live: agent-generated keyframes become animation styles, which use easing and timing variables, so changing one curve updates every screen. Variable modes then switch the same motion between a smooth and an expressive feel. ​“Motion can now finally be treated as part of the design system fully instead of something you have to build every time.”

Hairline 0.5px borders keep strokes crisp until you put them on a small corner radius, like a checkbox. Then antialiasing gets funky, especially in dark mode. Matt Ström-Awn’s workaround is two overlaid rectangles with carefully-tuned concentric radii.

Main-stage talks from Lenny & Friends Summit, with Marty Cagan on strong opinions loosely held and Claire Vo on whether any of the extra shipping matters. Start with Katie Dill of Stripe, who warns that AI building could leave us with ​“zombie UI that’s monotonous, vacant, or uncared for.”