Engineering

Clear documentation transforms abstract design principles into practical tools. Here’s how leading teams build and maintain living documentation that evolves alongside their design systems.

As AI handles specialized tasks with increasing sophistication, the ability to connect dots across domains has never been more valuable.

We turned six big ideas percolating around the Figma office—written from the perspective of devs, designers, analysts, writers, PMs, card-carrying generalists—and put them on record. Here’s a look at what’s on our minds for 2025.

There’s a resurgence of small, handcrafted sites challenging the current trajectory of the internet. Joining the movement is as simple as making your own.

Modern browsers have evolved beyond what most design tools can do. It’s up to us to break free from templates and tap into the web’s true creative potential.

UI3 prompted us to rebuild our own design system from the ground up. Here’s how designers and engineers came together to create a new foundation for building consistent, accessible products.

Advocating for Dev Mode changed my team’s workflow. Here’s how you can do the same.

How we went from autocomplete to AI search and landed on a tool that’s changing the way designers find and use existing work.

To build AI search in Figma, we had to tackle a number of technical hurdles, including the challenge of generating and indexing billions of embeddings to power these features—while also keeping costs down.

Our months-long investigation into slow search speeds led to a solution that not only improved performance but also set the foundation for future scale.

Developers have to split their time between heads-down work and collaborative touchpoints. VS Code aims to reconcile their competing priorities to keep them in the flow.