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What changes about design deliverables and workflow once generation gets good. Here is what’s directly relevant to you across the three conferences.
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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
- Once AI writes the code, the real moat is deciding what to build — and the toolkit is a set of old trades worth picking up on Monday.Balázs Horváth · AI Engineer World's FairFor · Engineering / development leads / Product managersAI ProductAI CodingContext3 min on screen16 min totalPart listen, part watch
- 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
- 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 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
- Models improve by the week, and the prompt box between you and them is still running the protocol of a punch card.Ted Johnson · AI Engineer World's FairFor · AI interaction designers / Agent developersAI ProductAgent6 min on screen20 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
- 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
- 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
- Engineers ship 8x more code and demand hasn't followed — the PM's new ground is commercial value, novel vision, and bringing people along.Claire Vo · Cursor CompileFor · Product managers / Founders in the age of AIAI ProductAI Coding7 min on screen26 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
- 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
- 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
- One copy change on screen raised reviewers' rejection rate by 21 pointsAngel Ortmann Lee · AI Engineer World's FairFor · Human-in-the-loop product designers / Owners of high-stakes review workflowsAI ProductEvalsAgentAI Coding11 min on screen26 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