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Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator, on why more designers should be founders: “…as many designers are worried about AI replacing their jobs, the real opportunity is for designers to use AI themselves to launch their own products and build their own companies. The design job of the future will be ​‘founder.’”

Mal highlights a few core features of Buzz — bulk create, make or edit images with AI, and wonderful templates to get started.

Luis shares a bunch of examples made with Figma Make.

I don’t see myself using Draw much, but I’m so happy it’s here for talented artists like Mehak Samaiya.

A rare feature that’s both underrated and long-awaited.

Joel Miller, Design Manager for the Figma Draw team, shares his five favorite design details of the new mode.

Luis shows how to design a data table with grids. This is one of the grid applications I’m most excited about. Notice how he adds notes with the new annotations tool as well — I’ve been using it more and more for notes lately, while keeping comments limited to discussions.

“Figma teases a future seat option for teammates who want to brainstorm, present, produce and manage content. Content seat will include: Figma Buzz, Figma Sites CMS (coming soon), Figma Slides, and FigJam.” Price is unknown, but my bet is on something close to Dev Mode.

Ridd is spot on: ​“2024: Figma uses AI to help designers design 😡 👎 2025: Figma uses AI to help designers code 🎉 🙌”

Noah Levin, VP of Design at Figma, gives a shout-out to designers behind the new product releases. First, I love seeing the individuals getting recognized for their hard work. Second, this is a great list of people to follow right away.

Molly shares a tip from Brad Frost’s new course on reusing ​“core tokens” across multiple brands.

Meng To shows how to generate designs in Aura and bring them to Figma. He includes a Figma file with 57 examples and they look pretty good!

A new Config talk just got announced: production designer Jeremy Hindle will talk about the creative vision behind Severance.

The new curved connectors mode for right-brained people. I’ll stick to my neatly organized ​“elbowed” connectors.

Wow, this looks incredible for mini-interactions. Looking forward to trying Magic Animator by Lottielab soon.

Anastasia shared a timelapse of drawing beautiful realistic keyboard buttons in Figma.

Brett from Designjoy shows how to apply dithering in Figma using the Dither plugin.

Karri Saarinen: ​“The idea that AI might ruin visual quality feels like a non-issue since there wasn’t much quality to ruin in the first place. […] My general view of AI is that it will just let us do more things, not take away things.”

Annotations are now available in Design Mode with new color-coded categories. Love that categories are fully editable, so you can adjust them to your team’s workflow.

The public rollout comes with a great commercial. Epic to see Soren Iverson in the main role!