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At Figma, we believe AI’s role is to help teams explore and imagine more. Every new model we bring to our platform gets evaluated through the same lens: Does it implement your designs with accurate fidelity? Does it take more of the busywork off your plate? Will it expand your team’s creative possibilities?
What It Is: New Relic combines Real User Monitoring (RUM), Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and infrastructure observability in one unified platform. Whether you’re tracking a JavaScript error originating from a slow backend API or monitoring Core Web Vitals across thousands of sessions, New Relic connects frontend performance to backend context in real time.
Debugging controllers can be a real pain. Here’s a deep dive into how CSS helps clean it up and how to build a reusable visual debugger for your own projects.
Summary: To create appealing designs, align type and elements to a grid, build a clear visual hierarchy, use color intentionally, and stay consistent with every design choice.
One prompt = one image. Don’t ask ChatGPT to generate a few different images in a single prompt because you will likely get a messy output. If you need a few images, simply submit a few prompts.
How to get production-ready code from AI by structuring Figma file, connecting your design system with Figma MCP, and writing better prompts.
And sure, design should do strategy. But that binary framing of strategy & production as the only two jobs that need doing is part of the problem. There’s a secret third thing that design excels at, which gets downplayed in a world dominated by feature factory thinking and output-driven productivity metrics.
Peek inside Netflix’s engineering culture with CTO Elizabeth Stone, as she shares how the company has no formal performance reviews, learns from failures, and builds at a global scale.
Nearly two years ago we kicked off the Gemini era, one of our biggest scientific and product endeavors ever undertaken as a company. Since then, it’s been incredible to see how much people love it. AI Overviews now have 2 billion users every month. The Gemini app surpasses 650 million users per month, more than 70% of our Cloud customers use our AI, 13 million developers have built with our...
It’s amazing to see how quickly web developers have adopted artificial intelligence (AI) apps. Many have added this technology to their workflow and haven’t looked back.
Solving security challenges at scale requires creativity as much as rigor. To reduce the risk of sensitive data exposure, we built Response Sampling: a lightweight, real-time control that watches outbound responses, validates access, and provides an early warning system across our products.
The average base salary for a UX designer in San Francisco ranges from $95,000 per year for Junior talent to $141,000 per year for Senior talent. The median salary is $145,000. The highest reported salary is $515,000, offered by Netflix, for a UX Designer, Live Event Operations & Production XD. The average additional cash compensation is $17,625.
Hello! This week I am sharing some thoughts on what it might mean for design to truly take an interest in our thinking, inspired by some time spent with a new notebook app with some novel ideas about how to integrate AI technology. We’re also admiring a beautiful mid-century lamp by Paavo Tynell and as always I’m sharing a bunch of links with commentary at the bottom.
There are lots of tips for improving your website performance. But even if you follow all of the advice, are you able to maintain an optimized site? And are you targeting the right pages? Matt Zeunert outlines an effective strategy for web performance optimization and explains the roles that different types of data play in it.
Imagine cutting your design time in half while doubling your creative output. That’s the power of AI in graphic design today.
I had a lot of fun talking with Arseni Harkunou on the Product Craft podcast. We cover a ton of ground!
Drew Wilson is one of the people pulling that future into the present so this week’s episode is a deep dive into his vision for the new design tool Opacity.
The CSS landscape has shifted fundamentally in 2025. Modern browsers now support native nesting, variables, and cascade layers—features that once justified a preprocessor as a mandatory first step in any project. Yet ask any seasoned frontend developer whether they’ve completely abandoned preprocessors, and you’ll likely hear a nuanced answer: it depends.
Today, ServiceNow, the AI platform for business transformation, and Figma announced a strategic collaboration to turn design vision into enterprise transformation.
Google’s Gemini 3.0 is quietly rolling out to select users ahead of an official announcement expected in late October 2025. Early testers report major improvements in coding, multimodal reasoning, and performance, positioning it to compete directly with ChatGPT and Claude.
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When the ES2025 proposals dropped, many developers (myself included) were shocked. JavaScript could finally be written like poetry — expressive, readable, and ridiculously elegant.
I remember the first time I used a 3D icon pack on a client project. It was a fintech dashboard redesign for a 99designs client, and I was struggling to stand out from 20+ competing designs. Flat icons were everywhere. Then I discovered 3dicons.co, dropped a handful of minimal 3D icons into the interface, and suddenly the design felt alive—modern, tactile, and genuinely different.
Figma has acquired Weavy, a platform that brings generative AI and professional editing tools into the open canvas. As Figma Weave, the company will help build out image, video, animation, motion design, and VFX media generation and editing capability on the Figma platform.
A practical guide for UX Designers on navigating the first 90 days. Learn how to onboard strategically and deliver early wins.
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The title of my talk is “AI Changes Everything (And Nothing At All)”—and I know that sounds contradictory. But over the next 30 minutes, I hope to show you why both are true.
“Of course I can!” — I answered without asking any questions and jumped to the implementation. It was early in my career, and I delivered it. It worked as they wanted.
Should you use AI in your work? Yes. The question is no longer if it can be helpful, but when? And how? By most practical measures, AI doesn’t seem ready to take over UX work completely, but many organizations encourage their UX teams to find ways to adopt AI-based tools into their workflows in hopes of increasing high-quality and efficiently produced outputs.
Download the one-page UI Decision Brief used by senior product, design, and engineering teams. Cut repeated arguments, make trade-offs visible, and create an audit trail for every major product or UX call.
Technology evolution modernizes and improves every tech field to get them ready for the next generation. Every tech field is evolving, including digital device design, automation, software development, and even UI/UX design. Technology evolution, user-centricity, and HCI innovations drive UI/UX design to help designers build more friendly, usable, productive digital products for all users.
User experience (UX) determines the success of digital products today. Whether it’s an e-commerce platform, a SaaS solution, or a mobile app, the way people interact with a product affects engagement, retention, and overall growth. As businesses compete for attention in a crowded digital space, integrating intelligent systems is becoming essential. AI development services are helping companies design products that feel intuitive, responsive, and aligned with user behavior.