Soleio’s guest is Rasmus Andersson: founding designer of Spotify, one of Figma’s first designers, co-creator of GraphQL, and creator of Inter. The part that stayed with me is his description of how Figma operated: one person on one problem for a year, sometimes binned at the end, while shipping something visible every month. He also makes a case that the production side of design — the part AI is eating fastest — was never actually the hard part. What’s left is the intention. The other link in this section is Soleio’s talk on the geometry of luck, making this pair worth watching together.

“Luck isn’t something that you have. It’s something that you leave behind.” Soleio — designer of the Like button and angel investor in Figma, Cursor, and Framer — delivered this as the closing line of his Tokyo Design Forum talk, and it’s the kind of sentence that reorganizes how you think about a career. The talk, now archived by The Forum Library, reframes luck as a generative force you shape through how you live and work, not a resource you accumulate.

Matt Colyer, Figma’s director of product management for developers, makes the case on Dan Shipper’s AI & I podcast that the SaaS apocalypse narrative has it exactly backwards. He’s been running his own agents for two years and is buying more software subscriptions than ever, because shipping and maintaining a personal agent teaches you fast why people pay for someone else to run it. The more interesting half is about design specifically: chat is linear, which makes it good at converging on a single direction but terrible at generating lots of options. Figma’s on-canvas agent is a first attempt at the divergent side — letting you branch frames in different directions, then bring in a convergent agent to cluster them. He also walks through how the MCP server closes the code-to-design loop, and why ​“review” has quietly become the biggest bottleneck in AI-assisted product work.

If you’re heading to San Francisco for Config, the official conference is just the start. This Luma calendar aggregates the unofficial satellite events — happy hours, dinners, morning meetups, and a comedy night — organized by community members across the city. Several are already at capacity or on waitlist, so worth checking sooner rather than later.

Figma’s first Config-branded Makeathon, co-hosted with Contra, runs June 4–18: build something with Figma Make for a shot at $100K in prizes, including a $50K grand prize. All participants get Figma Pro free for the duration, and the first 10K to pre-register before June 3 unlock early access to Figma’s new design agent beta.

Check Designs scans your file against your design system and flags four categories of drift: hard-coded color, text, radius, and spacing values that should be tokens; color contrast violations below WCAG 2.0 AA or AAA; components sourced from unsubscribed libraries; and fully detached components. Each issue comes with a one-click fix. Unfortunately, it’s only for Organization and Enterprise plans now — a big miss for many teams on Professional.

Slots in Figma Design just got a set of guardrails: min/​max layer counts, instance restrictions to limit what can go inside a slot, an empty-slot default so slots stay visible on canvas, and auto-fill behavior. Slots are now generally available, and these controls make them genuinely safe to use at scale.

The Figma Chrome extension can now capture any web page or element and bring it into Figma as editable layers — including text, shapes, images, and frames. It’s not a screenshot: the capture lands as actual design objects you can manipulate. Still in beta and limited to paid plans, and worth noting that design system mapping isn’t supported yet — your library components and variables won’t be automatically matched to captured elements.

An official Figma walkthrough of the agent (currently in beta, rolling out since May 20) through three phases of a real design project: exploring directions, processing feedback, and automating repetitive updates. The most practical detail: the agent works with your connected design system from the first prompt, so generated screens use your actual components, variables, and styles rather than placeholders. Also worth trying a prompt like ​“what would a growth-focused PM say about these designs?” to simulate stakeholder pushback before the actual review.

Three quality-of-life additions to Figma Make. Plan Mode lets you shape a project before generation starts — Make asks clarifying questions, drafts a plan, and waits for your approval before building. It costs more AI credits than a standard build, but the estimate shows upfront. Web Search & Fetch lets Make pull live content from the web or a specific URL mid-build. And queued messages let you stack follow-up instructions while the current generation is still running.

A variable font that renders bar charts, sparklines, and pie charts from typed text expressions. Add it via CSS, type something like {b:30,70,50,90} in your HTML, and the font’s ligature substitution does the rest — no JavaScript, no images, no rendering library. Two variable axes let you tune chart density and weight. It’s a genuinely clever hack, and the interactive demo is worth playing with.