Release Notes 2025: February Edition | Figma

Come hang out with us for another Release Notes livestream! We’ll be sharing all the new new at Figma—from recent launches to brand-new features we’ll be dropping live. Plus, the Figma team will give you a hands-on demo, so you can put the new features to use in your workflow right away.

Your hosts: Kaitie Chambers (Advocate), Sarah Kelly (Product Marketing Manager)
Special guests: Luis Bento (Software Engineer), Roy Fu (Software Engineer)

00:00 Release Notes intro
00:11 Intro with Kaitie Chambers and Sarah Kelly
01:00 Figma Slides
01:13 Slides entry points
01:35 Edit template styles in Design Mode
01:59 View history
02:27 Plugins in Slides
03:19 Iconify
03:48 Rehearse
04:28 Clean Deck
05:31 FigJam releases
05:38 New colors in FigJam
06:10 FigJam locking
07:29 Diagramming improvements
08:21 Mentions on stickies
08:33 New shapes sidebar
09:28 Connector labels
10:17 Design tools
10:34 Lock aspect ratio
12:33 Horizontal scrolling
14:01 Frame improvements
14:52 Boolean ops keyboard shortcuts
15:51 Boost image resolution with Figma AI
16:13 Lightning Round
16:47 User Testing
17:08 Library analytics styles/vars + API
17:41 Code Connect
18:18 Gradient variable binding in Dev Mode
18:39 Structured tags on Community resources
19:27 Image sampling
19:43 SVG export improvements
20:04 Recap
21:11 Sign off
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[portugepunk]

Nice update and format presentation format - thanks for going through the new stuff. These videos could be even better if you used a prompter on top of the camera so you look at us instead of reading off-camera. Would help us connect w/ you more. Nice work so far!

[jenmaggio]

Love Figma so much! You’re masters of Q.O.L. design improvements.

[sloanNYC]

Good summary of features rolled out the past couple months. Well done!

[ScottLeapman]

Am really looking forward to Config 2025 in May!

[designwith-hugo]

Great video! Thank you for creating this space to explain updates and provide useful introductions. I’m so excited to try out the Figma Slides plugins!

[danielbondas]

Nice video and i like the format. Thank you and keep up the good work!

[flexowitsch]

Thats a nice format. Please keep doing this!

[MostachoIrregular]

Can you add the tagging feature to any regular Figma file? It would be great for organization. Sometimes the "folder" paradigm is not enough for structuring files, something can belong to more than one place at once.

Maybe the team is organizing the file related to the features, but they can add tags to separate between platforms, or status, or whatever they need.

[nevinjosekallarackal]

I see someone in Figma likes the Severance series @04:42

[kelindrawn]

Sounds great! Next up PDF export with embedded fonts, right? 😉

[erapatt]

Please Highlight the Mouse Pointer when you click so everyone can see where is your mouse poiner. Thanks.

[HugoEscutti-yjmq]

The tools and chosse way election is is great

[Underhills]

Great! Many organisations and companies won't allow for AI training on their account, meaning they won't receive many of the AI features either. Same with plugin access that are restricted in many companies of size. Think it would be smart for Figma not to assume otherwise and consider that when developing things in the future.

[jo]

Shortcuts for manipulating text boxes, are still so necessary

[bunniewood]

What’s the difference between flatten and union Boolean ops?

[olano]

great - also - please make variables smarter. let them calculate like grown up tokens.

[OneHopKorea]

hello
I want to know what the AI option Inside the Figma File design section, some people have it and some don't. why is that?

[jesset]

I love the continued efforts to integrate with UserTesting. However, Figma prototypes still don't resemble a real application / software product. For example, users can't yet type into input fields. Instead, they are guided through an experience with predetermined inputs. Test results would be more accurate if there was no perceivable difference between the prototype and a real application. Please continue to focus on developing prototyping features in Figma so that prototypes can be configured to behave exactly like real software products.

[makarich_dev]

Excitedly waiting for AI features in Figma! 😄

[clazza-w]

Good video. Though, may I suggest getting a teleprompter—the darting eyes are a little off-putting and impersonal. Keep up the good work.