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Code becomes a design material, taste becomes the last moat
61talks30worth watching24.4hours total
What this conference was about
01Design and code converge
02Design systems as AI infrastructure
03Markdown becomes the carrier of organizational capability
04AI is a consensus engine
05Speed of learning is the new bottleneck
06AI collaboration leaves the silo
07Evals handed to designers
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- Two minutes inside the warmth of a 10,000-person design conference: trading plushies and a convention center going wild for E to the Pi I, at the close of Config.Dylan Field · Figma ConfigFor · Design conference organizers / Designers who couldn't be thereDesign-to-CodeAI Product1 min on screen2 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Meta tells it firsthand: how AI design output went from "looks about right" to 87% production-ready, and the whole method is yours to copyHarvey Whiting · Figma ConfigFor · Design system leads / Design engineersDesign-to-CodeContextEvalsAgentAI Product2 min on screen16 min totalPart listen, part watch
- A founder admits "AI-accelerated research" is just a faster horse, then launches a live in-app interviewerPrayag Narula · Figma ConfigFor · User researchers / Product designersAI Product2 min on screen19 min totalWorks as a podcast
- A CEO on rebuilding his company AI-native: gates torn down, everyone ships, designers hold the last 10%.Ned Dwyer · Figma ConfigFor · Design team leads / Product leadsAI ProductAI CodingDesign-to-Code3 min on screen18 min totalPart listen, part watch
- No models, no tools — just three habits you can start today: feed "you" to the AI.Carola Pescio Canale · Figma ConfigFor · Creators who want AI to write for them / Heavy AI usersContextAI Product4 min on screen18 min totalPart listen, part watch
- A GitHub designer's decade of hand-made proof: the weird thing nobody asked for is the load-bearing wall of a remote company's cultureJenny · Figma ConfigFor · Managers of remote teams / People driving AI tool adoptionAI CodingAI Product4 min on screen16 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Now that code is cheap, how does learning keep up? A live demo of the answer.Jenny Shear · Figma ConfigFor · AI prototypers, product and design / Research and UXR leadsAI ProductDesign-to-Code4 min on screen19 min totalPart listen, part watch
- The block wasn't running out of ideas, it was the workflow grinding him down — plus a live technique for getting 3D volume out of 2D shapes.Josh McKenna · Figma ConfigFor · Illustrators who've hit a wall / Visual/UI designersDesign-to-Code4 min on screen15 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Figma built an operating system for PMs in one month — the full, repeatable path from one person's write-up to 100% adoptionJanen · Figma ConfigFor · Product managers / Internal tools / productivity teamsAgentContextAI Product4 min on screen18 min totalPart listen, part watch
- About 1 in 7 people in the United States experience some degree of hearing loss - T-Mobile's frontline account of turning an "edge case" into a product everyone benefits fromWillie King · Figma ConfigFor · Product managers / UX and interaction designersAI Product4 min on screen20 min totalPart listen, part watch
- ESPN moved a broadcast graphics system with roughly two trillion combinations into Figma — a field manual for a giant migration, run one yard at a time.Elliott Muñoz · Figma ConfigFor · Design system leads / Maintainers of multi-theme component librariesDesign-to-Code4 min on screen17 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Once AI flattens the speed advantage, community becomes the new moat — four practical directives from the PM behind Figma's community products.Alicia Kranjc · Figma ConfigFor · Tool product PMs / Developer relations / community opsAI Product4 min on screen23 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Once code got cheap, design quality is decided by the versions you say no to — a prototyping methodology you can copyAndy Zhang · Figma ConfigFor · Product designers / Design engineering leadsAgentAI CodingDesign-to-CodeAI Product5 min on screen21 min totalPart listen, part watch
- A nine-person studio spent 12 months getting designers pushing production code — the method and the numbers both transferFrederick Andersen · Figma ConfigFor · Design team leads / Designers wanting to move into codeDesign-to-CodeAI Coding5 min on screen21 min totalPart listen, part watch
- AI multiplies every decision, good and bad — and four design leaders argue on stage over what to hand to the machine and what to keep in your own hands.Tammy · Figma ConfigFor · Design leaders / Hands-on product designersAI Product6 min on screen30 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Designers and product owners delivering code: a complete open-source practice for two-way Figma-and-code syncJustin Meyer · Figma ConfigFor · Frontend lead / Design system maintainerAgentDesign-to-CodeAI CodingContext6 min on screen20 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Crits scattered across meetings, docs, and chats? Here's a workflow that actually connects them.Jenny · Figma ConfigFor · Design leads / Design engineersAI ProductAgentContext6 min on screen21 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Designers don't need to learn ML: writing the North Star and working through disagreement, the craft you already have, is what it takes to lead AI evals.Rachel · Figma ConfigFor · AI product designers / User researchersEvalsAI Product6 min on screen19 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Notion had no design system until 2025: the year-long rebuild, and how they taught the agents table mannersTamara · Figma ConfigFor · Design system leads / Front-end platform engineersAI CodingAgentDesign-to-Code7 min on screen21 min totalPart listen, part watch
- A Config talk that deliberately skips the AI tips: eight years proving that what tools compress is not the accumulation, the decisions, or the endurance.Socrates Charisis · Figma ConfigFor · Design studio founders / Agency leadersDesign-to-Code7 min on screen21 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Let the AI audit its own design work: two months of build and QA down to two hoursMike Green · Figma ConfigFor · Design system leads / Front-end team leadsDesign-to-CodeAgentAI Coding7 min on screen20 min totalPart listen, part watch
- How Goodnotes did it the slow way — building with teachers — to find the real need behind AI marking and a handwriting tutor.Mubarak Marafa · Figma ConfigFor · AI product PMs / User researchersAI ProductAI Coding7 min on screen21 min totalPart listen, part watch
- A designer made behavioral science into a book you can ask a question, designed start to finish in FigmaRachel Miller · Figma ConfigFor · Designers who feel stuck / Anyone making a long-term personal piece of work8 min on screen24 min totalPart listen, part watch
- An OpenAI PM directs product like a stage director: how one sentence — the 'spine' — gets a team to work the averaging machine will never produceIsaac · Figma ConfigFor · Design leads / team leads / AI product designersAI Product8 min on screen22 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Straight from the VS Code team: write your design taste into agents.md and Skills so AI prototypes actually look like your product.Harald Kirschner · Figma ConfigFor · Product designers / Front-end engineersAgentAI CodingContextDesign-to-CodeEvalsAI Product8 min on screen21 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Musician RAC, twenty years in: once AI makes competence free, your point of view is the only asset that can't be averaged.Noah Levin · Figma ConfigFor · The anxious designer / The independent creatorAI ProductAI Coding9 min on screen27 min totalPart listen, part watch
- How language became a primary design medium for AI products — with a first-hand prompt rewrite on screenChelsea Larsson · Figma ConfigFor · AI content designers / Product and design leadsAI ProductAgentEvalsContext9 min on screen26 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Two live coding artists use a performance plus a manifesto to force creative-tool designers to re-examine their built-in assumptionsAnthony Di Spezio · Figma ConfigFor · Creative tool designers / Anyone kicking off a new project9 min on screen27 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Spotify's desktop lead shows how going deliberately out of sync with mobile produced the more right designGiulio Fagiolini · Figma ConfigFor · Desktop product designers / Cross-platform PMsDesign-to-CodeAI Product9 min on screen19 min totalNeeds your eyes
- After the burnouts and the turns, she made "do what you want to do, not what you think you should do" into an executable creative-career strategy.Lauren Hom · Figma ConfigFor · Designers in burnout / Independent creativesDesign-to-Code9 min on screen29 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Watch a designer who is not an engineer use an AI toolchain to take "a dress from one prompt" from vision to something you can actually print.Danit Peleg · Figma ConfigFor · People working in 3D printing and additive manufacturing / Fashion brands and supply chain peopleAI ProductDesign-to-CodeAgentAI Coding9 min on screen22 min totalNeeds your eyes
- Explains why products wear you out through the business model rather than moral failing, and gives four early-2000s design principles you can apply directly.Jésabel DC · Figma ConfigFor · Product designers / PMs working on retentionAI Product10 min on screen20 min totalNeeds your eyes
- Name interface mechanisms one by one, and you can finally tell AI what you want.Majola Balogun · Figma ConfigFor · Designers who lean on AI to generate work / Interaction and UI designersDesign-to-CodeAI Product10 min on screen23 min totalNeeds your eyes
- A Google engineer breaks down four levels of generating interfaces with AI at runtime — as candid about what broke as about the demosCraig Labenz · Figma ConfigFor · Front-end engineers / Product leadsAgentAI Product10 min on screen20 min totalNeeds your eyes
- A street artist on design ethics: after you ship the work, have you ever gone back to look at it?Ella Rochelle-Lawton · Figma ConfigFor · Product and brand designers / People who shape public spaceDesign-to-Code10 min on screen20 min totalNeeds your eyes
- Boston Dynamics from the inside: how generally capable hardware turns robotics into a software problemMegan · Figma ConfigFor · Software engineers on AI/agent products / AI product designersAgentAI ProductEvals10 min on screen21 min totalNeeds your eyes
- AI makes output faster, but software feels less human — a Figma designer's restrained critiqueLuis Ouriach · Figma ConfigFor · Product designers / Front-end developersAI ProductAI Coding10 min on screen27 min totalPart listen, part watch
- Turning "generate one image" into a creative pipeline you can hand off — real client workflows pulled apart on screenJenny Shi · Figma ConfigFor · Brand-side creative lead / Anyone building AI creative workflowsAI ProductContext11 min on screen21 min totalNeeds your eyes
- Film a real sword swing or a drop, and turn it into a reusable easing curve in Figma on the spotPatrick Flaherty · Figma ConfigFor · UI and motion designers / Design system maintainersDesign-to-Code11 min on screen22 min totalNeeds your eyes
- Govern product copy like a design system, with one system spanning Figma, code, and pull requestsJessica · Figma ConfigFor · Design system leads / Frontend and engineering leadsAI ProductAgentContextAI Coding11 min on screen20 min totalNeeds your eyes
- From being kicked out of a patient's room to 98% acceptance: a working method for the human system that lives beyond your design system.Anna Oh · Figma ConfigFor · Physical AI and robotics product designers / Product leads in healthcare and senior careAI ProductAgent11 min on screen19 min totalNeeds your eyes
- A five-element storytelling framework that turns 300GB of climate data into a story that drives actionMo Jola · Figma ConfigFor · Data visualization designers / Analysts who present findingsAI Product11 min on screen20 min totalNeeds your eyes
- Skate's UI designer: nine-slice lets gritty texture live in a design systemAmy · Figma ConfigFor · Game UI designers / Design system maintainersDesign-to-Code11 min on screen23 min totalNeeds your eyes
- A $40 Arduino and an iPad make a scooter rig so convincing it passes for the real thing — six months of validation done in hoursUnni K. Manikoth · Figma ConfigFor · Designers working across software and hardware / Prototyping engineersDesign-to-CodeAI Coding12 min on screen23 min totalNeeds your eyes
- Push a Figma frame straight onto a real appliance screen, and a six-month review cycle becomes two minutesFigma ConfigFor · UI designers for appliance and in-car screens / Hardware product design leadsDesign-to-CodeAI Coding12 min on screen24 min totalNeeds your eyes
- A production-grade blueprint: how a design system becomes infrastructure AI agents can consume directly, and turns into $1 billion in business results.Emily · Figma ConfigFor · Design system maintainers / Front-end platform engineersDesign-to-CodeAgentContextAI CodingAI Product13 min on screen21 min totalNeeds your eyes
- From Top Gun to Tron: telling stories through interfaces — 260 theatrical UI shots, every dot done by hand in FigmaJayse Hansen · Figma ConfigFor · UI and motion designers / Heavy Figma usersDesign-to-Code13 min on screen26 min totalNeeds your eyes
- A former Stripe designer answers his boss's "why can't we look more like Bloomberg?" with a five-rung ladder of densityMatthew Ström-Awn · Figma ConfigFor · B2B and dashboard designers / Front-end engineersDesign-to-Code14 min on screen22 min totalNeeds your eyes
- A three-step method road-tested on SAP's complex design system: turn your design system into a Kit and templates that Make will actually use.Laura · Figma ConfigFor · Design system maintainers / DesignOps leadsDesign-to-CodeAgentContextAI Product14 min on screen30 min totalNeeds your eyes
- Banknote anti-forgery history as a mirror: how Plaid rebuilt a brand around trust, entirely in-house, in the AI eraChris Warner · Figma ConfigFor · Brand and visual designers / Creative team leadsAI ProductDesign-to-Code14 min on screen23 min totalNeeds your eyes
- The designer behind the Brat green opens his Figma canvas and argues design has no finished stateDamian Correll · Figma ConfigFor · Album and brand visual designers / Music label marketingDesign-to-Code17 min on screen34 min totalNeeds your eyes
- Build products the way you hand out free ice cream samples: Figma used a failed prototype to pick a direction, and an ugly demo to ignite company-wide collaboration.Noah Finer · Figma ConfigFor · Product engineers / DesignersAI ProductAI CodingDesign-to-Code17 min on screen23 min totalNeeds your eyes
- The creator of 3Blue1Brown turns e^{πi} = -1 into a design lecture, and comes away with three transferable principles for designing an explanation.Loredana Crisan · Figma ConfigFor · Explanatory content creators / Teachers and curriculum designersDesign-to-Code20 min on screen27 min totalNeeds your eyes
- AI accelerates execution, not clarity; precise context gets agents writing less, and writing it betterJake · Figma ConfigFor · Design system maintainers / Design engineersAgentAI CodingContextDesign-to-Code20 min on screen32 min totalNeeds your eyes
- A full live demo of the in-canvas design agent: connectors, custom skills, and kicking off work in parallelAngel · Figma ConfigFor · Product and design leads / Design system maintainersAgentContextDesign-to-CodeAI Product20 min on screen27 min totalNeeds your eyes
- Build a plugin with one sentence: Figma's full demonstration of handing tool-making back to designers.Georgia · Figma ConfigFor · Designers who want to change their workflow / Plugin developersAgentAI CodingAI Product21 min on screen33 min totalNeeds your eyes
- Five product lines, one question: what should a design tool be in the age of AI?Dave · Figma ConfigFor · Design engineers / Product designersDesign-to-CodeAgentAI CodingAI Product25 min on screen72 min totalNeeds your eyes
- Native shaders in Figma, end to end: describe an effect in one sentence, and the code is still yours to take.Georgia · Figma ConfigFor · Brand visual designers / Front-end engineersAgentDesign-to-CodeAI Product25 min on screen33 min totalNeeds your eyes
- Code comes to the canvas: a full live demo of designers editing production code and opening a PRGeorgia Russ · Figma ConfigFor · Product designers / Design engineersDesign-to-CodeAI CodingAgent29 min on screen43 min totalNeeds your eyes
- Watch Weave turn AI generation from a single image into a brand content machine that one word re-runs every monthRon · Figma ConfigFor · Brand marketing content lead / Designer producing imagery at scaleAI ProductContext33 min on screen41 min totalNeeds your eyes
- The full Figma Motion launch: hand-tuned keyframes, agent-built animation, motion variables, and production code in one chainGeorge Russ · Figma ConfigFor · Motion designers / Design system maintainersAgentDesign-to-CodeAI Product34 min on screen44 min totalNeeds your eyes