Figma adds code layers, support for animations, more AI features in new update

Figma connected Wednesday showed disconnected an update that adds a caller codification layer, enactment for question and shaders, and the quality to make customized plugins for assorted tasks utilizing AI.

The plan level has been moving connected bringing codification integration into its instrumentality for a while. Last year, it unveiled an AI prompt-based prototyping tool, Figma Make, and has since launched integrations with Claude Code and Codex to amended the hand-off betwixt coding and design.

The institution is present adding codification layers straight to the collaborative canvas, helping teams clone repositories and extract flows from codification to plan layers for testing.

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Figma’s main merchandise officer, Yuhki Yamashita, said codification layers marque it easier for designers, merchandise managers and programmers to iterate connected ideas alternatively than absorption connected creating pristine codification that goes into production.

“We deliberation the multiplayer canvas is truly almighty due to the fact that this is an situation wherever you don’t truly attraction astir the prime of the code. If you’re rapidly exploring oregon request to benignant of research a clump of caller directions, you tin bash that successful this spatial way. We anticipation that this diagnostic produces antithetic behaviour not conscionable with designers, but besides with engineers and PMs,” helium said implicit a call.

Figma present besides supports animations, transitions and 3D transforms. Previously, designers had to make animations successful different bundle and person it to codification that the app could understand. Now, designers tin integrate animations and transitions straight into Figma.

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You tin present usage AI to make immoderate of these assets, and the update is adding enactment for adding shader effects and fills utilizing AI, too.

Figma acquired node-based instrumentality Weavy, which helped designers tally workflows done antithetic models to comparison outputs, past year, and is present moving to integrate the 2 apps better. In an update rolling retired aboriginal successful the year, users volition beryllium capable to make Weavy workflows straight wrong Figma.

The company’s besides adding caller skills to marque its AI assistant much utile with its collaborative canvas. Users tin present constitute substance prompts to make repeatable skills that AI agents tin use. You tin besides link tools similar Notion, Granola, Excel and GitHub, oregon connect files to springiness the AI bot much discourse astir what you privation it to do.

The institution is besides adding a diagnostic to assistance users make customized plugins, similar layout generators oregon vector way tracers, with prompts.