See if color contrast meets accessibility standards right within the color picker. I’m glad this is now built-in and the UI looks great (see an X thread from Billy Sweeney), but as a color nerd and creator of Accessible Palette, I wish Figma went a step further and supported APCA. I wrote about issues with the WCAG 2 back in 2021 (see the last section), and Arthur Objartel made a strong case for supporting it as well.

A few tweaks and improvements to the file browser create a more consistent experience.

“Figma is localizing for the Spanish market. This includes full product translation, culturally adapted user interfaces, and dedicated support for Spanish language users. Figma plans to expand product localization to additional languages throughout the year, as it continues to invest in its global community.” (Coincidently, I was in Spain when this was announced. Rest assured I didn’t touch Figma while vacationing with my family.)

“On April 30, we’ll be fully transitioning to UI3, our redesigned interface that puts your work center stage. Here’s what you need to know about the change, along with tips for a smooth transition.”

“With our FedRAMP Moderate status officially approved, the public sector can use Figma to brainstorm, design, and build better digital experiences for U.S. citizens.”

Figma Slides is now out of beta and available to everyone with six major new updates: import and export .pptx files, object animations, slide numbers, components, and video improvements. Learn about new features from Noah Finer’s video or read how other teams adopted Slides to tap into a design system, use branded assets, improve collaboration, and get audience feedback.

The public rollout comes with a great commercial. Epic to see Soren Iverson in the main role!

The Pragmatic Engineer podcast: ​“How do you take a new product idea, and turn it into a successful product? Figma Slides started as a hackathon project a year and a half ago – and today it’s a full-on product, with more than 4.5M slide decks created by users. I’m joined by two founding engineers on this project: Jonathan Kaufman and Noah Finer.” Read two interesting takeaways from this episode on X.

So many great speakers and topics this year! I’m particularly looking forward to talks on programmable colors by Evil Martians, collaborative brand design by Smith & Diction, building digital products as a company of one by my friend Christine Vallaure, designing for early-stage startups by Gabriel Valdivia, typography by Elliot Jay Stocks, and of course a secret deep dive by Rogie King, Tim Van Damme, and Lauren Budorick.

Linear’s CEO shares his approach to quality at a time when ​“move fast and break things” no longer cuts it. My favorites: ​“Commit to quality at the leadership level”, ​“Do away with handoff”, ​“For quality, you need a team that views the spec as the baseline, not the finish line”, and ​“The simplest way to increase quality is to reduce scope”.

Data from the State of the Designer 2025 survey tells us that product builders are mostly happy at work with 41% of designers and developers more satisfied than they were last year. So what impacts their happiness, and how can we drive an upward trend? Here, Figma dives into 5 crucial contributors to happiness: design’s place in the organization, company policies on hybrid work, how leaders empower their teams, effective collaboration and communication, and tools for self-empowerment.

“Designers crafting elaborate prototypes in Figma to mimic basic digital interactions are essentially building digital Rube Goldberg machines. If you’re going to spend hours creating intricate simulations in Figma, you might as well put that effort directly into code — because in the end, code is where your designs must ultimately function.”

I might be biased, but I don’t see many designers that ​“tweak their Figma files endlessly, push back on any technical constraints, and then smugly hand over their ​“perfect” design — only to be baffled when development comes back with a hundred questions about feasibility”. What I do see is designers learning to program, adopting AI tools like Cursor, and getting heavily involved in building and shipping their vision — and I’m here for that.

Tia Sydorenko argues that our interactions with digital systems ​“are not just changing; they are shifting in their very essence.” She builds her argument on this insight from Jakob Nielsen: ​“With the new AI systems, the user no longer tells the computer what to do. Rather, the user tells the computer what outcome they want.”

“Unlike straightforward direct manipulation — such as dragging a file between folders, where actions unfold step by step — AI interactions demand a more fluid, iterative process. Users articulate their goals, but instead of executing every step manually, they collaborate with the system, refining inputs and guiding the AI as it interprets, adjusts, and responds dynamically.”

Always happy to support an argument for adopting OKLCH and Display P3: ​“Many design systems use hex values to represent colours. As far as I’m aware, there’s currently no way to provide a colour space with a hex value in CSS. That’s okay though — the color() function includes a parameter for the colour space. color(display-p3 1 0 0) is bright red in Display P3. In fact, color(1 0 0) is not allowed. A colour space must be provided. Are you noticing a trend? Colour spaces will be required in the future.” 

Figma’s designer advocates, product designers, engineers, and PMs hung out in London to record a mini-series about craft, users, and the design process. In this episode, they discuss the challenges designers face in the industry and how Figma approaches the design process to overcome these challenges. In the following Users episode, they cover how Figma product development teams approach user feedback and incorporate it into their design process.

Ever wondered what a specific design systems term means? Check out this glossary with detailed explanations of 33 common terms.

In time for fully transitioning to UI3, Jay chats with Tim Van Damme who shows how he designed UI3 icons in Figma. You will learn about Tim’s icon design process, preserving visual weight, how he makes icons playful, and more. Don’t miss part 2, where they discuss designing UI3.

“This project implements a Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration between Cursor AI and Figma, allowing Cursor to communicate with Figma for reading designs and modifying them programmatically.”

So excited to dive into it! ​“This file showcases the UI3 design language from Figma’s internal design system, featuring the styles, components, and variables that help Figma’s design team build products. By sharing this publicly, we hope to support other teams and creators, whether it’s with developing Figma plugins/​widgets, exploring ideas, or even creating your own design guidelines and UI Kits in Figma.”

“Sort UI is the ultimate Figma UI Kit, designed to help you build and launch projects up to 10x faster.” Also available for Framer.