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.”

“Join us to hear how Figma and OpenAI’s Codex are making design-to-code workflows more efficient and accurate. With the Figma MCP server, developers can easily bring design context into Codex to generate production-ready code. We’ll chat with Romain Huet, Head of Developer Experience at OpenAI, for a live demo, practical tips, and a Q&A session.”

“Use ChatGPT to generate presentations, social posts, invitations, digital ads, posters, and more. The Figma app is available to ChatGPT users on all plans. Support is coming soon for users in the EU.”

Figma introduces a way to track your AI credit usage, and on March 11, 2026, will offer more ways to buy additional AI credits.

In his talk at Converge 2025, Luis Ouriach makes a compelling argument that we create too many design tokens — particularly for colors.

A really interesting look at modern CSS patterns that 37signals use in Campfire, Writebook, and Fizzy. No Tailwind, no build process, and lots of cutting-edge CSS with good browser support — custom properties (variables), native nesting, container queries, the :has() selector, CSS Layers for managing specificity, color-mix() for dynamic color manipulation, and clamp(), min(), max() for responsive sizing without media queries. 

Fast Company spoke with Figma’s head of AI, David Kossnick, about what the company has accomplished so far, where he’s trying to steer it, and why the tech industry needs to move past prompting and create experiences that are ​“more visual, more exploratory.”

10 years since Figma launched on December 3rd, 2015. Congrats on a big anniversary!

Reuters: ​“Design software company Figma was hit with a proposed class action in California federal court on Friday for allegedly misusing its customers’ designs to train artificial intelligence models. The lawsuit said the company used its customers’ data and intellectual property without permission to train its generative AI tools, which according to the complaint led to San Francisco-based Figma’s ​“sky-high valuation” in a $1.2 billion initial public offering earlier this year.”

Loredana Crisan, Chief Design Officer at Figma, introduces Gemini 3 Pro as a new experimental model in Figma Make.

Dylan Field shows several demos prepared with Gemini 3 Pro and highlights how this model stood out in one-shot generation and a wide range of visual aesthetics.

Molly suggests using separate color palettes for marketing and product design, as they have different goals and speed of iteration.

Noah Levin, VP of Design at Figma, shows how creative image prompting with the new Nano Banana Pro model can add serious value to your work across all of Figma’s products. I really liked the practicality of examples in this article, from updating a headshot to match the rest of the team to preparing a dark version of the illustration.

Max Woolf ran experiments with image generation models and was really impressed with Nano Banana 2.5 — note that this blog post was published before Google introduced the new Pro version. ​“After running Nano Banana through its paces with my comically complex prompts, I can confirm that thanks to Nano Banana’s robust text encoder, it has such extremely strong prompt adherence that Google has understated how well it works.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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