“We’re introducing Visual Search to help you more easily find what you’re looking for with a single reference. Search for anything from icons to entire design files with a screenshot, a selected frame, or even a simple sketch with the pencil tool, and Figma will pull in similar designs from team files you have access to. And with improved Asset Search, Figma now uses AI to understand the context behind your search queries. You can easily discover assets — even if your search terms don’t match their names.”

A new landing page for all AI features: ​“Get started faster, find what you’re looking for, and stay in the flow. Make space for more creativity.” See also a one-minute demo reel of new features.

Remember that they’re currently in beta and will become a paid feature next year: ​“Our AI features will be free for all users during the beta period, which runs through 2024. As we learn how these tools are used and their underlying costs for Figma, we may need to introduce usage limits for the beta. When Figma AI becomes generally available, we’ll provide clear guidance on pricing.”

Introducing new Visual Search and upgraded Asset Search, AI-powered text and content generation tools to help you quickly populate your designs with realistic content, image background removal, turning static mocks into interactive prototypes, automating layer naming, and even design generation from text prompts. ​“Whether you’re searching for inspiration, exploring multiple directions, or looking to automate tedious tasks, we’re building Figma AI to unblock you at any stage.”

Gabriel Valdivia on Figma AI: ​“Right before Figma’s keynote announcing the ​“make designs” button, I ​“made code” with another app. On one hand, people can now use Figma to replace designers, while on the other hand, I’m using Cursor to replace engineers. I’m stuck in the middle feeling simultaneously disempowered as a designer and completed empowered to make new software.”

June 26th, 7–10 PM. ​“Join us on the first evening of Config for a special event celebrating designers at the forefront of building with AI. Connect with over 50 designers and see lightning demos from companies like Perplexity, Visual Electric, Chroma and more.” 

Jordan Singer shares a few things he learned while designing and building AI at Figma.

An AI-powered wireframe generator — describe your vision, and it will design it in a single click.

Charlota K. Blunarova shares her observations and experience with using AI-generated assets in branding work. Those are truly beautiful projects, and I love her approach to using AI to expedite the execution phase so she can explore more ideas while dedicating more time to the strategic phase and project refinement.

A tutorial on creating an AI-powered Figma plugin that generates colors based on your descriptions. It’s pretty cool to see how accessible it becomes to build a plugin using LLM (in this case, OpenAI).

New plugin from Meng To: ​“AI Text Generator is a super handy Figma plug-in made for designers who want to rewrite their text in a couple of clicks. It uses OpenAI GPT‑4 to give you smart, creative text suggestions—think names, titles, or even Lorem Ipsum dummy text—right where you need them. It automatically detects the selected text’s length and generates the perfect amount of words for your alternatives. You can also add custom prompts, which is useful for more control, generate any type of text, in different languages and amount of words.”

A new plugin from Pablo Stanley is an AI design assistant that turns simple prompts into websites. The promise is to ​“get your design 80% of the way, so you have time to obsess over the final little details”.

Michael Mignano talks to Jordan Singer, AI lead at Figma and former Founder & CEO of Diagram. They covered the role of human designers in AI, what it’s like building AI features for the world’s leading product design platform, Jordan’s path from coder to designer to product builder to founder, and much more.

In another conversation with Andrew Hogan, Ritesh Gupta, CEO and Founder of Useful School, shares how he sees work changing, the value of different identities and ways of thinking, and AI’s impact on UX and design.

Andrew Hogan, Head of Insights at Figma, talks to Bob Baxley, SVP of Design at ThoughtSpot, about his view on AI’s impact, why it’s so important to design tools well, and what we can learn from history and huge projects like the Apollo Mission.

Weavely is the AI form builder for Figma. You can design a form in Figma, and Weavely will generate a working web form from it. It supports answer piping, conditional logic, AI form generation, and more.

Now you can use the power of AI to generate and expand mindmaps and create visual timelines in FigJam. See examples in the gallery of ready-made FigJam AI prompts.

“Researcher Gus Griffin recently completed one year on artificial intelligence work at Figma. In this conversation with Figma’s Head of Insights, Andrew Hogan, Gus walks through AI feature fatigue, what people really want from artificial intelligence, and how his anthropology background helps him do his work.”

Fast Company calls Figma one of the ​“most innovative companies in applied AI” for boosting creativity and digital collaboration with the OpenAI-powered Jambot plugin for FigJam. Wild to think that it was born out of an internal two-day AI hackathon just eight months ago. (For additional context, see the above interview with Nilay Patel.)

In this episode of the Designing with AI podcast, Mia Blume chatted with Noah Levin, VP of Product Design at Figma, about the emotional ups and downs of the recent acquisition announcement and how it impacted the team, explored the implications of artificial intelligence on creativity and curiosity, leading teams through times of change and learning, decision-making, democratized access to information, and even the concept of love.

Replit Vice President of Marketing and Design David Hoang talks about how AI is reshaping the future of product design and development, and the role it’s playing in the company’s team and products. On synergy between design, engineering, and AI: ​“Whether you currently work more in engineering or design, AI offers augmentation for you to do both. Engineering and design are on a course to become one tightly woven discipline.”

On hiring with regards to their Artificial Developer Intelligence (ADI) strategy: ​“At Replit, we’ve always leaned towards hiring multidisciplinary designers who understand the technical depth it takes to create software and bring it into the world. Each designer has the output of three to five designers that you’d ordinarily work with. They code, prototype, review pull requests, do unit testing, facilitate research sessions, and run workshops, too.”