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eliminate the gap between imagination and reality

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Joined October 2007
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CUSTOM SHADERS BUILT WITH THE FIGMA AGENT
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nightmare fuel
This was not a one-shot It was a two-shot I told Fable 5.2 to make the video of it's dreams, and 9 hours later:
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MCP for thee, but not for me…
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Meet your one click wonder Select an object to isolate or erase it with Figma’s AI image editing tools. Available now on the macOS desktop app.
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Thanks, @neilrenicker ! Our post-trained models are powering more and more of this work. It’s exciting to see how post training + evals created by experts can compete with frontier models on design tasks. Lots ahead here and the team is doing great work!
The @figma agent has gotten really good at doing Figma-specific stuff: - turning things into components and then deploying the component across a bunch of artboards - moving artboards around, renaming and numbering artboards for human consumption - applying tokens and text styles across dozens of artboards and hundreds of layers - has gotten noticeably quicker and more successful over past couple months Really enjoying, terrific work team. Allows me to focus at exactly the right level of abstraction.
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Turn an idea into vectors you can riff on with Figma agent → Fully organized and grouped layers → Editable strokes → Ready for animation with Figma Motion
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$FIG Q3 results: → $391M in revenue, 43% YoY growth rate and $16M above high-end of prior guidance → 131% net dollar retention rate → 36% YoY growth in non-GAAP gross profit → $1.7B in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities → Raising our outlook for FY 2026
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Hot take: AI made the canvas more important, not less. i see a lot of designers skipping design tools and going straight to code, asking why anyone would still need an infinite canvas. i recently built a small web app (Hue Scream) and leaned on AI for a lot of the code. it made me appreciate the canvas more, not less. To me, the canvas is a big table. It’s where I: – spread out inspiration and references – make quick, rough sketches – put variations side by side – leave notes for myself – go back and pick up a variant I dropped three days ago – tweak and polish vibecoded prototypes - invite others to collab and review design is non-linear. you jump between ideas, compare them, backtrack, and combine two half-ideas into one good one. most vibe-coding tools and AI chat interfaces force you into a straight line: prompt, output, prompt, output. they aren't at all collaborative. they don't feel like a space you could invite someone to.
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Code Layers is a blast. Bring your code-backed prototypes right onto the canvas to collaborate and riff with your team. Give it a spin! We've been using it a bunch internally (to build Figma in Figma) and it's made AI prototyping so much more fun Lots more to come here
Code Layers is now available for everyone to try
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You would be shocked if I told you the things we made Llama 3.3 70B do.
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Giving a shit is a moat. Not throwing slop grenades in your app at your customers is a moat. Human customer service with care and empathy is a moat. Just giving a shit is such a moat today.
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We built a CPU in @Figma to run Figma in Figma. CC @zoink
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This post isn’t design… it’s art
I don’t use Figma anymore. For the past six months I’ve been uploading my consciousness directly into the ether and allowing the work to manifest through minor disturbances in the electromagnetic field. You think you are seeing the aurora borealis that's actually my brain waves. It’s a much more intuitive process. I sit completely still in my office until a founder somewhere develops a sudden inspiration for their brand positioning but in reality it was me clipping them in their brain stem, smiling down on them like one of God's children. People keep asking what tools I’m using. I understand the question. I used to think that way too. But asking me what tools I use is like asking a glass of water what software is wetness. Its a meaningless question. I don’t design anymore. I am the pixels. I am the logo. I am the little bit of space between the 'r' and the 'n' that you better make sure is kerned properly. When you increase the font size I experience physical growth. When you cut a vector point, my consciousness goes into quantum superposition. This is where the industry is going. If you're not on board, you're going to get left behind. My entire design system now lives in the collective unconscious. There’s no documentation. Your team will simply wake up knowing the button radius. If someone uses the wrong shade of blue they’ll hear a high pitched ringing sound until they correct it. Developer handoff has been so smooth since I started working this way. My effigy appears at the foot of the engineer’s bed and I open my mouth. The CSS comes out at a frequency only their fillings can receive. We’ve eliminated all meetings. I no longer send clients presentations. I enter their dreams as a white horse with an already complete interactive brand guidelines. They’re free to leave feedback by speaking into a bowl of room temperature water. I receive it immediately and disagree with it on a cellular level. Transcending this outdated material plane is my standing Tuesday meeting. Some people are uncomfortable with this. A procurement manager recently asked whether I could provide an SVG of the logo and I just told her to close her eyes and remember the first time she felt truly understood. She looked annoyed and just said their print vendor needed an SVG by today. A big adjustment has been personal. My wife asked if I could help bring in the groceries. I explained that I now exist simultaneously across every customer touchpoint. I think there’s a lot of fear right now about what happens when designers stop needing tools. But the people who adapt will be fine. You just have to be willing to let go of a few outdated ideas. Like having a body. Being legally distinguishable from a gradient. Anyway I am open for new branding projects this quarter.
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As I get my hands more and more on @figma's Code Layers, it feels so meta. Unreal. Such a big bet on turning the Canvas into.. a solid, super advanced creative brain. Every moment with Code Layers is a WTF moment.
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Awesome to see @ShawnFarsai and @gabepereyra share Harvey's work around combining agentic workflows with the Figma canvas and Weave! Excited to make this something you can do end to end in Figma! (We're so close!)
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In the world of software design and product, we're seeing exponentially more software. But the usage and utilization of apps? Flat. Differentiate with design, a point of view, brand, storytelling, "taste" (and all the buzzwords you can think of)
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Do people today really still find the "Who's on First" skit funny? I believe people found it funny back in 1930's-1950's. Hard to even make it through the entire six minute skit in 2026.
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This might be the most important essay of 2026. My conversations with Nick over the past few months about his research have given me great hope for the future. I'm so happy he is sharing these findings with the world. AI presents extremely difficult problems. We can all assume these problems are intractable and that we are doomed, or we can try and solve for a positive future. Personally, I choose optimism. There are many challenges ahead... let us build the tools to face them head on.
interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots. years later, I started openai's first large-scale automated interpretability project, finding about 2% of neurons legible with the primitive tools we had with modern agentic tools and a much closer look, the picture looks totally different. the vast majority in models up to trillions of parameters are legible, and their circuits beautiful. many famous examples of tangled neurons turned out to be misunderstood. The roadblocks I expected mostly aren't there. I now think ambitious interpretability will be solved by the time we need it most, and possibly quite soon, as automated scientists keep improving. it may be a bitter lesson for interpretability: the simple thing, at absurd scale, works already-clean.goodfire.com/
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Some behind the scenes details... we tried getting an overhead camera setup working to show off code layers and specs on mobile, but we had to scrap the overhead at the last minute. Figma mobile team is absolutely crushing it... !
I remember that a theoretical variant of this product was one of my interviews to join Figma. The team behind this is absolutely cracked and this is just the beginning. …also try it out on iOS!!!
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Bracing myself for about 20 videos of me failing to dance to Gangnam style
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