Tom Johnson suggests we need to go from Canvas → Make to Make → Canvas → Make, so we could prompt the rough parts of the app and then use those scrappy elements to design all of the different canvases for the flow or feature, then feed those back into the Make workflow.

Ridd got an inside look at Figma Make while talking to Holly Li and Nikolas Klein about the future of prototyping. In this episode of the Dive Club podcast, they rethink what ​“high fidelity” means, explore how Make fits into the design workflow, and discuss use cases they’re most fascinated by.

A new official free course for beginners: ​“This course will walk you through the entire process of creating a website design for a personal portfolio website. We’ll start by teaching you the fundamental concepts and features that Figma Design offers, and then we’ll go on a creative journey together to make a website that you can customize to make your own using some of Figma’s most exciting features.”

Ana Boyer: ​“Just as design systems help design and engineering teams understand brand guidelines, best practices, patterns, and code, they give AI agents the context they need to produce not just any output, but the right output. And when AI agents can build with your design context, they create a flywheel effect: AI strengthens your design system, which powers better AI code generation.”

Great analogy: ​“Asking an AI agent to generate code without design system context is like asking a new engineer to start shipping code before onboarding. It might technically work—but it won’t align with how your team actually builds.”

Joey Banks shares a free lesson from his course with Dive readers on how to use Figma’s MCP Server. 

In this replay from the June 4th, 2025 webinar, learn more about the latest tools that help you express more in your Figma designs. Lauren Budorick, Rogie King, and Tim Van Damme will walk through improvements to vector editing, as well as new brushes, fills, and effects.

Rogie walks through quality of life updates for Figma Draw’s variable width stroke feature. Now you can select a width point and double click to enter a numerical value; after selecting a width point, you can go to the next one with Tab and the previous one with Shift-Tab shortcuts; with a custom width profile, you can see a preview of the shape or edit the width profile from the menu; hold Control to disable Snap to Pixel for more precision; select two width points by holding Shift and resize both together. 

Rogie King introduces a new brush type in Figma Draw — scatter brushes. Make sure to read a fun behind-the-scenes look at how Rogie and Molly worked together to create and name the new brushes.

Miggi shows a new Figma Draw feature. You can now take any flattened vector path and offset it to expand or retract it.

Jack Michalak and Tammy Taabassum pair with Supabase​’s Chris Caruso to demo Make’s new Supabase connector, wiring auth, file uploads, and live Postgres tables straight from a Figma frame. Nice primer on turning a design into a data-backed web app with almost no code.

Figma Sites now supports apex (top-level, like exam​ple​.com) domains and custom subdomains (like yourname.figma.site) so that you have more options for personalizing your URL.

This is a pretty nice QoL improvement. Want to see it in Figma Design too!

Designer Advocate Lauren breaks down how to create code layers in Figma Sites.

Software engineers Darragh Burke and Alex Kern share the story behind the creation of code layers to bring design and code together. ​“Building code layers in Figma required us to reconcile two different models of thinking about software: design and code. Today, Figma’s visual canvas is an open-ended, flexible environment that enables users to rapidly iterate on designs. Code unlocks further capabilities, but it’s more structured — it requires hierarchical organization and precise syntax. To reconcile these two models, we needed to create a hybrid approach that honored the rapid, exploratory nature of design while unlocking the full capabilities of code.”

Now you can bring an existing design library to Figma Make, so the model can extract color palette and usage guidelines, typography and custom fonts, as well as core styling elements. You can also manually define rules for the model to follow via a guide​line​.md file. Watch the above video from Make PM Holly Li, or read the help article.

You can now adjust the width of your stroke at any given point along a path with the new variable width stroke vector editing tool. Variable width stroke also makes it possible for users to draw with pressure sensitivity on tablets. Figma will set the stroke width to reflect the amount of pressure applied at each point when drawing with a stylus, which makes freehand drawing in Figma more realistic. (Still no iPad app though.)

Jamayal makes cool atmospheric illustrations in Figma Draw.

Developer Advocate Akbar Mirza and Product Manager Yarden Katz provide a live update on Figma’s Dev Mode MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, explaining what MCP is, how it works, how to set it up, and how it helps bridge the gap between design and code. They also cover the new support for Annotations, which allows designers to add accessibility, behavior, and content information to their design files, which the AI agent can then use to generate more accurate code. Finally, they discuss the importance of aligning variable names between design and code. Don’t miss the follow-up video where Akbar and Yarden answer viewer questions from the livestream. 

“New in Dev Mode MCP Server: Annotations are included as design context. Generated code now benefits from both the structure of your design and your design intent.”

Developer Advocate Jake Albaugh shows how to bring design context from Figma directly to your agentic coding tools with the new Dev Mode MCP server.