Config is returning to San Francisco on June 23–25, 2026, and early bird tickets are available with a 50% discount ($450 instead of the regular $899) for a limited time.

“For years, India’s design and developer community has pushed the boundaries of what’s possible in Figma. Now, with our new hub in Bengaluru, we are excited to meet these builders where they are—and learn firsthand how they’re reimagining what’s next and shaping the future of product development in India.”

A new survey, based on ten in-depth interviews with 340 people, reveals that product designers are facing high stress, burnout, and slow career progression, largely due to chaotic organization, poor management, and unpredictable communication within the tech industry.

Figma shared a YouTube playlist with all sessions from the recent Schema 2025 event. I’ll link individual videos in chronological order below.

Design Tokens W3C Community Group: state of the specification by Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent, Spectacular slots by Nathan Curtis, and Design systems at altitude by Clasonda Armstrong Grandison from Hawaiian Airlines.

The future of design systems and AI by Matt Fichtner from Figma, Design systems for infinity by Rachel Been from Expedia, and Empowering designers: AI, design systems, and quality by Grant Blakeman from LinkedIn.

Crafting design context for agentic coding workflows by Jake Albaugh from Figma, Making the right thing the easy thingby Elynn Lee from Figma, and Design-to-code and beyond: inside Coinbase’s MCP ecosystem by Siddharth Kulkarni from Codebase.

The closing keynote by Dylan Field, where he highlights that it’s an exciting time for building and crediting design systems as the backbone for scaling, connecting design to code, and enabling diverse contributions. According to Dylan, design systems are key to defining the next generation of software, serving as the ​“north star” for product builders.

Jay interviews Jade, a senior product designer at Atlassian, who gives a detailed walkthrough of her Figma file organization and design workflow. Jade shares how she structures Figma files for developer handoff, including using Confluence and Loom for async collaboration, and explains Atlassian’s ​“good, better, best” design framework to balance user experience with real-world constraints.

Great overflow from Jake on how developers and designers collaborate using Figma’s newest workflow updates and features. He covers design systems, Dev Mode, Code Connect, Code Syntax for variables, Annotations, AI, and code generation.

Holly Li, product manager for Figma Make, explains two major recent updates: templates let a team create and publish a Make prototype, enabling others to instantly build on a solid foundation without recreating designs from scratch, and making it possible to copy Make prototypes directly as design layers into Figma Design.

Dylan Field was a guest on the Uncapped podcast with Jack Altman, where they discussed the slow build of Figma vs. the dizzying start of today’s AI startups, the role of AI and humans in design, the importance of staying connected to young people, and what it takes to be a strong and empathetic leader.