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In Good Company: How Agencies Are Transforming Client Collaboration

4 days ago | figma.com | Diana Budds |Jenny Xie

The landscape of design agencies and freelance work has seen dramatic shifts in the past two decades. Not only has remote work created more dispersed teams, but boutique agencies have risen to challenge the behemoths that once dominated the space. Gone is the attitude that design is an opaque process; instead, agencies and clients stay in close collaboration, co-creating a bespoke workflow for each project. Within agencies, roles are blurring as well.
Double Click: You Can Just Do Things—But Should You Always? | Figma Blog

2 months ago | figma.com | Carly Ayres |Jenny Xie |Amber Bravo

Welcome to Double Click, where our community weighs in on trending topics in tech and design. We’re witnessing a Cambrian explosion of AI tools redefining what software can do—and who can create it. Every day brings new writing assistants, design generators, and research platforms, all adding fuel to the meme that’s become a tech mantra: “You can just do things.” At the core of this catchphrase is the feeling that anyone can make anything happen.
Double Click: When Coding Becomes Conversation

Feb 20, 2025 | figma.com | Jenny Xie |Amber Bravo |Jake Albaugh

Welcome to Double Click, where we ask our community to weigh in on trending topics in tech and design. When tech’s resident AI explainer, former OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy, posted about something he called “vibe coding” earlier this month, it hit a nerve with tech Twitter. “There’s a new kind of coding where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists,” he wrote, describing how he now builds projects by simply talking to AI.
Making Space for a Handmade Web

Jan 11, 2025 | figma.com | Andrew Hogan |Jake Albaugh |Jenny Xie

I make art using the internet as a medium. From unearthing YouTube comments left under love songs to turning my desktop into a landscape full of browser windows, I work to reimagine what the internet can be. When I share websites I’ve made, people often respond with comments like “I wish the web were like this.” These reactions confuse me: I just made this website, and the web still is very muchlike this: personal, poetic, expressive. That is, if you know where to look.
8 Ways to Craft an Unforgettable Config Talk

Nov 14, 2024 | figma.com | Jessica Svendsen |Chad Colby |Dylan Field |Jenny Xie

Early bird tickets to Config Global in San Francisco, and Config London are now available. As we shape the lineup for Config 2025 and open our call for speaker proposals, we’ve asked some of our favorite speakers to share which talks left them buzzing. This best-of-the-best list also serves as a rubric for future presenters eyeing the Config stage. Whether you’re mulling over submitting a proposal or simply seeking creative inspiration to revitalize your work—buckle up.
Updating Our Web System For A New Era

Nov 13, 2024 | figma.com | Carly Ayres |Jenny Xie |Jessica Svendsen |Chad Colby

In our series exploring Figma’s brand refresh, we’ve dug into our new visual language and Figma Sans, our new custom typeface. Today, we’re pulling back the curtain on how we’ve used Figma’s latest features to revamp our web design system. Back in 2020, we shared how we built our design system for our website, figma.com. That site had one job: to introduce a new design tool to the world. Fast forward to 2024, and things look pretty different.
Made in Figma: The National Park Service Goes From Paper to Pixels

Oct 21, 2024 | figma.com | Jenny Xie

When we think of national parks in the U.S., we think of natural grandeur: the granite cliffs of Yosemite, perhaps, or the twisting canyons of Zion. The National Park Service (NPS), however, manages 431 units of staggering diversity—some as small as the one-room Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial in Pennsylvania.
Crafting the Visual Identity for Config 2024

Jul 11, 2024 | figma.com | Dylan Field |Amber Bravo |Jenny Xie

Config is held at Moscone Center in San Francisco, and it’s a huge space. We played with scale on every surface, including wrapping vinyl graphics around the building exterior. Box kites: One Hat One HandEvent production: Sparks and EncoreMotion: Relay and Jordan ScottPhotography: Ross Mantle and Preston GannawaySound: Sounds Like TheseWebsite development: Big MarkerEvery year, our Brand Studio team faces an exciting challenge: creating a visual language for Config, Figma’s annual user conference.
Ovetta Sampson on Inputs and Outputs

Jun 26, 2024 | figma.com | Amber Bravo |Jenny Xie

As many focus on the possibilities and limitations of AI tools and their output, Ovetta Sampson reminds us to pay attention to the power of the input. After two decades in journalism and the last five years in tech leadership roles, Ovetta Sampson knows a thing or two about navigating the human experience. As Director of User Experience Machine Learning at Google, she leads a team aiming to make ML and AI accessible and useful to more people.
Can we reach beyond the echo chamber?

Jun 26, 2024 | figma.com | Amber Bravo |Jenny Xie |Alia Fite

Two creatives behind the browser that’s breaking the internet discuss what Zadie Smith, A24, and sunspots have to do with building a product. To some, reinventing the browser may feel like reinventing the wheel. But to Product Designer and Brand Lead Karla Mickens Cole and Head of Storytelling Nashilu “Nash” Mouen at The Browser Company, it’s a welcome challenge. They’re working on the Arc browser, a more focused, personalized way to surf the net that’s now enhanced by Max, a suite of AI features.