“Enterprise Key Management (EKM) allows your organization to encrypt Figma file data with your own AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys. This provides your organization additional control over data at rest. You can grant, monitor, and revoke Figma’s access to the encryption key at any time.”

Admins on Organization and Enterprise plans can now view historical AI credit usage data to better plan for future costs.

“Starting today, the Figma for Jira app supports webhooks, so teams can get instant design status updates like ​“Ready for Dev” directly in Jira tickets, with no admin setup required. Webhook support is enabled for newly linked design files, and we’re rolling it out to existing links soon.”

Big update to Figma navigation! The rollout seems to still be in progress, as I’m seeing it only in one of my accounts. If you aren’t seeing it yet, here is another quick demo from Zander.

“We’re introducing a new left navigation bar in Figma Design, Draw, and Dev Mode to make it easier to move between library assets, variables, and search. To help you get familiar, we added labels, which you can toggle anytime in the View menu. Edge-to-edge variables authoring experience. See everything at a glance with the new full screen view that spans the entire width of the browser.”

“Templates built with Variable modes now work seamlessly when published to Buzz. This gives your marketing teams more flexibility to toggle between your brand modes like colors, campaigns, markets, and more — all while staying on brand. When they open a template published with variables, they’ll see a new Variable switcher in the menu to easily change modes.”

“Admins on Organization and Enterprise plans can now disable ​‘From Figma’ Community templates in Buzz, ensuring teams use only the templates your brand team has published and approved.”

Starting today, websites published from Figma Make and Figma Sites include more metadata for better search and sharing experiences. The improvements include auto-generated site descriptions for Figma Make and support for OpenGraph and X tags for published Figma Make and Sites so they look better on social.

Three new AI image editing tools for precise editing and manipulation work — Erase object, Isolate object, and Expand image — and a new toolbar that pairs existing image editing capabilities with these new features. ​“Now, you can lasso any object in an image and use Erase object to remove it completely, or Isolate object to edit or reposition it—without affecting the image background. You can also take a single object or person and apply lighting, color, or focus adjustments. […] Expand image extends the image background to fit new aspect ratios without distortion, preserving the integrity of an image while adapting it to any layout.”

Connect external tools to Make to pull in PRDs, tickets, and product documents, so you can create prototypes with full context. Update your connected docs or create tasks directly from Make to keep everything in sync. Supported connectors: Asana, Atlassian (Confluence, Jira), GitHub, Linear, mon​day​.com, and Notion.

A summary of everything Figma announced at Schema to help teams design for the AI era. Extended collections are a new way to manage multi-brand design systems, where authors can release a simple whitelabeled version of their design system that designers across the company can extend with their own themes, publish, and reuse. Slots let you add your own layers within instances and easily specify which instances a slot accepts, allowing for both increased usability and compliance with your design system. Check designs linter matches your raw values with their corresponding variables. Finally, the team completed a massive rewrite of the architecture for massive performance gains.

In addition to new design features, Figma has been working hard to bring context from your codebase into your design system. With the new Code Connect UI, users can connect Figma directly to their GitHub repositories and use the new AI suggestions feature to quickly find the right code file to map to Figma components — no coding necessary. The MCP server is out of beta and generally available — now you can add guidelines for how AI models should adhere to your design system. Make kits let you generate React code components and CSS files for your styles and variables, then package those outputs for use in Figma Make. Additionally, Figma announced NPM package imports, native importing and exporting of variables, simplifying authoring experience for collection, and increased variable modes.

Over 15 accessibility improvements expand keyboard-only controls, improve screen reader reliability, and give you more ways to work across Figma, FigJam, and Slides.

“Rolling out to Enterprise plans over the next few weeks, Organization admins can now enable or disable AI features for individual workspaces. When toggled on, AI functionality will be available in all files within that workspace.”

“Now you can use the Figma integration with Zapier to connect Figma to thousands of other tools without writing code. The integration helps teams stay focused on building great products by automating routine tasks, like sending notifications when files are updated, logging design feedback, and creating tickets for follow up tasks.”

A major update to Figma Sites. First of all, custom fonts are finally here! More accessibility features, like HTML tags on layers, accessibility controls, and ARIA role settings. Password protection for the portfolio you still won’t finish. A configurable cookie consent banner, and a new link shortcut with additional types like back and scroll to. Last but not least, Figma Sites is now available for all Starter and Education users.

New enhanced contrast toggle makes the Figma UI easier to read with higher contrast text, buttons, outlines, and selection, aligned with WCAG AA standards.

“The Community tab is back in the file browser, replacing the previous Templates & Tools tab, for easier access to your favorite public Community templates, plugins, and more. Now you can also easily discover internal templates published by your teammates with the new Resources tab in the file browser under your team space.”

“Explore ideas and riff on product flows with templates in Figma Make. Create an accurate representation of an existing product experience, then replicate it as a sandbox to experiment with design directions, new feature ideas, growth campaigns, and more.”

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

Updates to AI-powered image editing features across all products — remove background or boost resolution for up to 25 images at once, and choose between Gemini 2.0 Flash and GPT Image 1 to get results that best match your prompt.

“Now you can add all the templates within a template set in just one click — so you can create more assets and launch your campaign even faster. Just the click ​“Add all” button at the top of the template set to insert them into your file at once.”