Emil Kowalski helps decide when and how to animate to provide a better user experience, starting with ensuring your animations have a purpose. I finished Emil’s course Animations on the Web this summer and highly recommend following his writing on motion and animation.

Design Manager Jonas Downey shares tips he learned for building resilient design teams at Figma, Twitter, and 37signals: start with team health, encourage experimentation and shifting roles, treat craft as a differentiator, build bridges across the org, be judicious about process, scale with intention, and make time for levity. ​”Adaptability doesn’t happen by accident—it’s a product of intentional leadership, express permission, and encouraging people to continually push the boundaries of what’s possible. And sometimes it takes a bit of trial and error to get right.”

I rarely wear clothes with prints, except for Figma’s swag. This article looks at a greater phenomenon of corporate attire: ​”Whether it’s a coveted Power Mac G4 Cube T‑shirt or a current Figma style, software is trending. One might call it ​“corpcore”: a sensibility that both revels in the iconic software logos of yore while celebrating the tech companies that touch a nerve today. People are increasingly repping apps on tote bags, hats, and water bottles in the same way they might wear a band T‑shirt or sports jersey.”

Motion designer Thibaut Crépelle reimagined the launch of the iconic iMac G3 with an animated video and an interactive page made in Framer. Really fun passion project executed with high quality and attention to detail.

My first Mac was a Mini G4 introduced in 2005, but soon after, I also got an iMac G3 because of its cool look. Watching this reel made me want to get another one again.

Design Engineer Carmen Ansio on the change coming to translating visual ideas into solid code: ​“We’re on the edge of a massive shift, thanks to three things coming together: smart design systems in Figma, an AI-native code editor called Cursor, and a data bridge called the Model Context Protocol (MCP). We’re not just translating pictures anymore. We’re building machine-readable systems that an AI can understand and build from directly. This guide is for you, the person on the ground, showing you not just how to use this new workflow, but how to think about it.”

In this webinar, Yarden Katz (Product Manager for MCP) and Peter McCarron (PMM for Dev Tools) walk through some best practices for how to structure your design files to ensure better design-to-code translation, use annotations and rules to align outputs with your codebase, and provide other tips & tricks for optimizing your MCP outputs.

Lauri Lännenmäki shows yet another use case for Make — after designing a complicated component with different properties and states, make an interactive playground to give to the developers. Great opportunity to test edge cases and experiment with interactions.

In this replay of the August 14 webinar, Figma’s onboarding team walks through how to get started with Figma Make, how it fits into your design and product development workflows, and practical tips for preparing your designs to unlock faster, smarter AI output in Figma.

Miggi: ​“Figma Make is coming to Figma’s free education teams. Students and Educators can now use Figma’s prompt tool to help take designs to functional coded prototypes! Those already on the education plan will require re-verification to continue to use free education teams and access to tools like Figma Make.”

Admins on the Enterprise plan can now require password protection for all published Sites & Makes across your organization.

“From a brand template to an entire digital campaign, now you can easily copy your designs over from Figma Design to Figma Buzz in just a click. Simply right-click the frames you want to copy over, select the ​‘Send to Buzz’ button in the context menu, and they’ll instantly appear on the canvas of a new Buzz file.”

“Figma shares plunged 14% in extended trading on Wednesday after the design software company reported results for the first time since its initial public offering in July. Revenue increased 41% year over year in the second quarter from $177.2 million a year earlier, Figma said in a statement. […] The company sees between $88 million and $98 million in adjusted operating income for the full year and a little more than $1.02 billion in revenue.”