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Tech · 19 d ago

Illustration of a design canvas arranged by AI cursors

Figma adds tools to keep AI agents within a brand's design rules

What Figma announced

  • Figma Specs, a Markdown editor for design rules
  • Code layers in open beta
  • Payload content management inside Figma Make
  • Support for more than 20 new tools via MCP

At its first Config event in India, Figma launched Figma Specs, a Markdown editor where teams set out their design language for people and AI agents to follow. Code layers moved to open beta.

"There are 17-times more lines of code being produced today than in the past. But when you're looking at releases, only 1.3-times more releases," said Loredana Crisan, Figma's chief design officer.

— Loredana Crisan, Figma chief design officer

India's top 100 listed companies using Figma

40 %

India is Figma's biggest market by users outside the United States, and the company says it works with 40 per cent of India's top 100 companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange.