May 26, 2026Between new model drops and agentic tools, how design happens is changing fast.Illustrations by Hatty StaniforthTo help you bridge the gap, we’re highlighting new workflows and tools that facilitate speed, direction, and craft.Want the next issue delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up here.What’s worth shippingAI makes it easier than ever for product teams to speed ahead—but the danger is choosing the wrong direction. Figma’s Chief Product Officer Yuhki Yamashita offers ideas about how to combat tunnel vision and resist the “good enough” output, so what you build has a real edge over the competition.Read moreThe TL;DR on MCPModel Context Protocol—MCP for short—lets agentic coding tools pull crucial context from your Figma files and design systems. Here’s how it can amplify your work as a designer or developer, and what you can do to make it even more effective.Read morePower up your visualsWhether you’re working in video, photography, illustration, or 3D effects, the right visuals can make or break your design. And now, with precise AI image editing capability like Figma Weave, you can generate what you need in seconds. To get you started, here are 20+ workflow templates, plus a guide to building out an entire asset library from just two reference images.Read moreRoundtrippingTeams are moving fluidly from canvas to code, and code to canvas. What does that unlock for both designers and developers? Figma’s Software Engineer Alex Kern and Design Director of AI Gui Seiz chat about how newfound speed and deeper context can help us raise the bar on craft.Read moreRabbit hole1. Check out how a designer and developer use the Figma MCP server to work out the kinks in a video export flow.2. If you’re becoming a Figma Make power user, here are 7 ways to be more efficient and get more out of every rev.3. Agentic tools for work should keep you focused on your task, not on managing the AI. Here’s how the Gemini Enterprise team took on that design challenge.The last wordCreate and collaborate with FigmaGet started for free