Figma launches Specs editor and expands agent tools at India event
Figma announced several new features at its first Config event in India, focusing on how AI agents interact with its design platform. The centerpiece is Figma Specs, a Markdown-based editor that allows teams to define their design language and rules. This document serves as a reference for both human teams and AI agents, ensuring that generated designs adhere to specific brand guidelines. Users…
What you can do with it
AI at Work →Set brand guidelines with Figma
What you get You get consistent brand compliance when using AI agents to create designs.
Markdown editor to define design language and rules for agents.
- Who for
- founders and operations
- Cost
- Price not stated
- Effort
- minutes
Use it for
- Set brand guidelines
- Manage design context
- Guide AI agents
How to set it up · From the article
- Create a new Figma Specs file
- Define design language in Markdown
- Reference canvas elements or code layers
Watch out Requires Figma account; specific plan limits not stated
Key points from the news
- Figma launched Specs, a Markdown editor to define design rules for teams and AI agents.
- Code layers feature moved to public beta, allowing users to add code to canvas designs.
- Figma integrated Payload CMS with Figma Make and reported sixfold growth in Payload downloads.
The company also expanded access to its on-canvas agent and moved its code layers feature from private to public beta. Code layers allow users to add coding directly to designs for interactive prototypes, with the option to ask the agent to convert designs into code or modify existing code. Figma stated that these tools help steer the non-deterministic nature of AI toward more predictable outcomes.
Additionally, Figma is integrating Payload, the headless CMS it acquired last year, with its Figma Make product to generate dynamic websites. The company reported that Payload downloads have increased sixfold in the last 12 months. Figma also noted that it supports over 20 new tools via its Model Context Protocol (MCP), including Open Code, Dia, Grok Bot, and Indian startup Sarvam. India is currently Figma's largest market outside the United States, with the platform used by 40% of the top 100 companies on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform
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