If you have time for only one thing, watch this Config 2025 opening keynote led by Dylan Field.

If an hour-and-a-half keynote is too long for now, this blog post provides a good recap: ​“Dylan Field runs down everything we launched at Config 2025 and explains why pushing design further matters more now than ever.”

Whoa, that was fast! All talks from this year’s Config are already available on this YouTube playlist.

A grown-up version of zines from previous years. Didn’t read it yet, but flipped through, and it’s a beautiful historic artifact.

Noah Levin, VP of Design at Figma, gives a shout-out to designers behind the new product releases. First, I love seeing the individuals getting recognized for their hard work. Second, this is a great list of people to follow right away.

Ridd is spot on: ​“2024: Figma uses AI to help designers design 😡 👎 2025: Figma uses AI to help designers code 🎉 🙌”

“Figma teases a future seat option for teammates who want to brainstorm, present, produce and manage content. Content seat will include: Figma Buzz, Figma Sites CMS (coming soon), Figma Slides, and FigJam.” Price is unknown, but my bet is on something close to Dev Mode.

A help article on the new grid flow for Auto Layout.

Luis shows how to design a data table with grids. This is one of the grid applications I’m most excited about. Notice how he adds notes with the new annotations tool as well — I’ve been using it more and more for notes lately, while keeping comments limited to discussions.

“Grid is a new auto layout option that makes it easier to design responsive, flexible layouts. In this playground, you’ll learn how to use rows, columns, span, and more to create everything from galleries to bento boxes to card layouts.”

“Figma Draw pairs faster, simpler vector editing with powerful tools for visual expression — so designers of all stripes can bring their vision to life without breaking focus.” One thing I keep wondering about is how much visual design will change in the coming months. Medium and tools define the end result, and Figma just got way more powerful and artistic.

“Figma is for practical business application.” The marketing team has been killing it with recent promo videos!

Joel Miller, Design Manager for the Figma Draw team, shares his five favorite design details of the new mode.

A rare feature that’s both underrated and long-awaited.

I don’t see myself using Draw much, but I’m so happy it’s here for talented artists like Mehak Samaiya.

“Welcome to Figma Draw, a way to design precise-yet-playful illustrations, icons, and more. This playground file teaches how to use our new drawing and vector editing tools through interactive examples, and share some inspo created by product and brand designers using the new features.”

“Today, we’re launching Figma Sites, an all-in-one tool for you to design and build custom, responsive websites. Here, we share how you can go from design to production in the most efficient — and expressive — ways.”

Alex Einarsson teamed up with Figmates Luis Ouriach and Noah Levin to build a plugin for converting your Read​.cv profile into a Figma Design file, which can be easily copied and pasted into Figma Sites as a functional resume website.

“Today we’re introducing Figma Make, a new prompt-to-code capability to help you quickly explore, iterate, and refine — whether it’s generating high-fidelity prototypes or getting into the details in design and code.”

Theo with an interesting analysis of Figma Make and why it was introduced now.

Luis shares a bunch of examples made with Figma Make.

“With Figma Buzz, brand designers and marketers have a shared space to build beautiful, on-brand assets at scale.” Non-designers on my team use Canva a lot for event materials and marketing assets, and I can’t wait to set them up with customizable on-brand templates.

Mal highlights a few core features of Buzz — bulk create, make or edit images with AI, and wonderful templates to get started.

It’s wild that this conversation was happening at the same time across the street. Maybe Sir Jony Ive accidentally got to the wrong venue? Anyway, he doesn’t give many interviews, and Patrick Collison is a great interviewer, so I’m looking forward to watching this.

Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator, on why more designers should be founders: “…as many designers are worried about AI replacing their jobs, the real opportunity is for designers to use AI themselves to launch their own products and build their own companies. The design job of the future will be ​‘founder.’”

Figma created an entire hands-on course on designing a portfolio website from scratch. ​“We’ll cover the basics like shapes, text, and frames, and tap into more advanced features like auto layout, components, and prototyping. By the end, you’ll be ready to start bringing your own ideas to life.”

“Recently, we introduced two new features for improving design & development collaboration. In this video, we’ll explore these new features and show how they can assist you during handoff. First, we added categories to our annotations features which makes it easier to communicate design intent and improves navigation for developers. Second, we added our new eyedropper tool to Dev Mode making it easy to copy color values, styles, and even code syntax.”

An interesting new plugin that brings reusable CSS-like classes to Figma — set all the style properties on a frame, save it as a class, then apply all those properties to other frames in one click. Right now, it just saves all properties to a class, but an obvious improvement would be letting the user choose them individually.

This is a very smart workaround, but I’m often reluctant to rely on 3rd-party plugins for core workflows. I wish Figma styles would be extended to support multiple properties (i.e., applying fill, stroke, and radius as a single style) or they could be abstracted and reused through a parent component with a slot (similar to passing children prop in React).

Cole Bemis demoed this experimental plugin for creating state machines and integrating them into your designs at the Figma × GitHub event last week. (Hope the video will be released later!) ​“Think of a state machine as a way to organize all the different ​‘states’ your design can be in. For example, a form might have states like ​‘empty,’ ​‘filled,’ ​‘submitting,’ or ​‘error.’ State machines help you clearly define these states and the rules for moving between them, making complex interactions more manageable.”

Unhappy with how the design turned out? Run the plugin and shoot your layers as they’re falling on the canvas. (Just remember to make a copy or save to version history before.)