Figma 3.0 (Dev Mode, AI, Slides and more)

Figma has become a standard for a reason. In the AI era, they're doubling down and trying to focus more on devs too. I don't love everything here, but there's some good changes and I wanted to talk about it

S/O Ph4se0n3 for the awesome edit 🙏

[unicodefox]

the whole 'the tech industry currently relies on exponential growth, and thats far from over' left the biggest bad taste in my mouth. i am not a figma investor. i do not want them to focus exponential growth. i am a figma user and want to not have my experience any more enshittified than they've done so far recently.

[kirbyhood]

On: "Who thought we would mention C++ in a Figma video", believe it or not a massive portion of Figma's frontend is written in C++ compiled to WASM

[neoqueto]

When a layperson sees a UI change or even a brand change: 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
When a designer sees a UI change or even a brand change: 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[brandonhamaguchi]

With the launch of Figma Slides, I think that was an opportunity to rename Figjam to Figma Whiteboard, and "Figma" to Figma UI. So much better naming scheme

[jouebien]

I mean I care about them stripping out old tools for devs to force us to buy dev mode. Like my entire workflow disappeared. Yes than tab for the CSS is gone.
I'd love for them to fix the jank ass reversed order arrays which make up the layer tree - which make things like masking select order backwards.
The workflow tools we'll see - 50% of the designers I've worked with wont adopt them because they (along with management) are happy to continue to let dev fall on the sword for them instead of have any accountability.

[alexh]

Even as a dev I love using figma, I was going to go to the watch party for the Config event that my “Friends Of Figma” chapter was holding but ended up not going. Honestly did not expect the update to be this big and I’m pretty hyped for the new UI and the slideshow feature and CodeConnect.

[OneOfThePetes]

Marketing absolutely puts me off a product.

[toast_dev]

Figma is now at the next phase of their lifecycle. They’re more likely targeting new market of non-designers and developers. I’m wishing them the best, would love to see the $1B breakup fee in use

[Underhills]

Hearing a developers viewpoint on these things is just what I needed. I've always wondered how the best handovers should look like. I've been using Avocode, Zeplin, Adobe Specs and Figma / dev mode. To me most developers seem a bit distant to Dev mode.

[claasdev]

The big thing about exporting as CSS is not that we can use the exact styles but that we can understand the layout from the CSS/dev perspective

[kasper_]

Hard coupling your component library is an absolute no in my book. Exporting design tokens to code - yes please, but entire components, no. It’s too much coupling and too complex to be compatible with all devices and mediums (ie PDF or Email will still need to follow the design system, but good luck generating components for those mediums with all their quirks as well as native and web)

[kehrin]

The pitch I made in Figma for our startup looked insane, so I'm hyped for Figma Slides. Actually, I'm hyped for all of these changes. Really cool Config this year!

[mubashir]

The shock-face thumbnail to get views still works?

[connorskudlarek]

If they can push the AI to run in the client, this would make the cost of the AI significantly less for Figma and thus more accessible to devs that just need something to get started with.

[motionthings]

Oh look. They shut down the gen AI.
404 media has an article about it.

[tadasnever]

Imo, AI design components is a such a gimmic. You never start with design to begin with. And if you do, you already have some guidelines, that AI generated design will not follow (unless it is specified in library, but it could be janky in most cases). And if I need a specific component, I will create in few minutes. Which would take the same time to fix issues that AI creates. I see it as a tool for dribbblers or for developers to generate quick and easy designs. That being said, I am not sure if I would ever use for client work, as an UI/UX designer.

[babakfp]

So, Theo does free advertising for companies now? He didn't even consider looking at (and sharing with the viewers) what the designers think about the new changes? Sounds like Theo.

[XCanG]

As a developer I only hope that they hide Comments sidebar with new redesign, because I had to write custom CSS for their site to delete that sidebar, because it cover like 1/4 of a screen.

[TolyaBogomolov]

Wow penpot's new UI looks so good

[nymez]

„Who would habe thought we would mention C++ in a Figma Video?“ - Figma is literally written in C++ …