Itβs that time of year again when designers worldwide flock to an event center in San Francisco. Iβm talking about Config, the annual event where the darling design platform Figma shows off what itβs been working on.
Unsurprisingly, AI is still the star of the show, but the company also announced some other updates, including a Google Slides competitor and a new, refreshed look for the platform.
Letβs start with the design overhaul. According to the announcement, itβs been redesigned from the ground up to βfocus the canvas less on our UI and more on your work.β Users will notice a new toolbar, new navigation, rounded corners across the UI, and some 200+ refreshed icons.
Moving on from the redesign, the team also announced Figma Slides, probably one of its most practical features yet. As the name suggests, Figma Slides is a Google Slides-style presentation feature. There are a few Figma-orientated features built to delight designers, like tweaking your deck designs in real time instead of jumping between a slide and its corresponding frame.
Youβll also be able to present that app prototype you spent hours perfecting right from your deck, meaning you wonβt have to create a whole screen recording just to show your team your vision for how every piece connects.
Remember how I said AI was still the star of the show? The headline feature yesterday was arguably Figma AI, a suite of generative AI features that are built to help you design and iterate quickly. Like Framerβs AI option, Figma AI lets you generate an entire prototype for web, mobile, and anything in between with a prompt.
Alongside that, Figma AI comes with features built to speed up smaller tasks like generating placeholder text and an βAI-enhancedβ asset search function.