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“For more than a decade, Figma defined modern product design. It made collaboration effortless, turned design into a shared language, and became the default workspace for teams building software. But as AI reshapes how products are planned, prototyped, and shipped, the central question is the extent of Figma’s usefulness. Or rather, will the canvas remain at the centre of gravity, if at all?
Unlike the previous conference, Config 2026 makes that question more urgent. Figma no longer just defends a collaborative design canvas; it is actively expanding that canvas into code, motion, shaders, and agent-driven workflows. That shift reveals how much pressure the old model is under.”
Rethinking Figma in an AI world →
By Darren Yeo
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Editor picks
- The organizational cost of low taste →
Organizations don’t fail in strategy, they fail in decisions.
By Aurélie Radom - Your design system runs on one person’s judgment →
AI is about to prove it.
By Dolphia - Dear Figma, I believe you can survive →
Here’s why.
By Hani Yeo
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Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you →
Make me think
- The Layers of AI experience →
“The introduction of generative AI into digital products has upended the interaction model that anchored much of the previous era of design. Great AI products are multi-dimensional. Small changes to one can have an outsized impact on the whole.” - Less is more, more or less →
“Everyone knows the age-old saying of quality over quantity but sometimes it’s difficult to understand exactly what it means in practice. In the age of AI, more people can make more things, much faster. Quantity still matters and it always will, but more things being made doesn’t mean better things are being made.” - Consistency, but in excellence not appearance →
“Systems prescribe rules because they are the easiest attributes to document, enforce, and automate — “All icons must use this shape, this lighting, this stroke.” Excellence, by contrast, is harder to systematize. It requires judgment, taste, care, experience, and a sensitivity to context — all in service of meaning and purpose, not superficial similarity.”
Little gems this week
What sits on the engawa →
By Hiroshi Sato
Your banking app is lying to you →
By Zeeshan Khalid
Someone designed this →
By Arun Bakirathan
Tools and resources
- How to stop re-explaining yourself to Claude →
Here’s how I fixed that.
By Sean Filiatrault - Creative cadence →
Exploring the links between music and creativity.
By Kate Dowler - Your AI-generated prototype is probably not a prototype yet →
Not proof that an experience works.
By Nicola Piedimonte
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Rethinking Figma, the cost of low taste, your banking app is lying to you was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
