Muzli Recap: The Highlights from Figma Config 2025

Published by Muzli on May 7, 2025

From Design Tool to Creative Operating System

This year at Config 2025, Figma took another bold leap forward—transforming from a collaborative design platform into a full-stack creation environment. The announcements, which touched everything from prototyping and code to websites and marketing content, made one thing clear: Figma wants to be the one place where everything gets done.

Here’s our recap of the most important updates:

Figma Sites – Publish Live Websites from Inside Figma

Design it. Launch it. No code required.
Figma Sites lets designers build and publish real, responsive websites directly from their design files. The platform includes smart blocks, layout tools, and even text-based animation prompts (e.g. “make text float like a feather”). A CMS layer is expected later this year.
→ It’s a direct challenge to tools like Webflow, Wix Studio, and Framer.

Figma Make – From Text to Functional Code

With Figma Make, users can describe features in plain language and get working code snippets in return. It’s powered by Claude 3.5 and allows designers and product teams to prototype functionality, not just interfaces.
→ Think Copilot, but built into your canvas.

Figma Draw – A New Home for Illustration

Figma is now a vector-based drawing tool, too.
Figma Draw introduces expressive brushes, textures, and real-time stroke effects—making it possible to illustrate logos, icons, and visuals without ever leaving the design environment.

Figma Buzz – Scalable Content Creation for Marketing Teams

Figma Buzz brings AI-assisted content generation to the marketing world. It offers approved templates, AI-generated visuals, and copywriting tools for teams creating emails, ads, and social content at scale.
→ A collaborative, brand-safe alternative to Canva—built into Figma.

Bonus Announcements You Shouldn’t Miss

Grid 2.0 – Flexible layout grids with more responsive control
AI Prototyping – Generate flows, wireframes, and animations from text
Visual Search – Instantly locate components via image-based search
Deeper Dev Mode – New “Ready for Dev” and “Focus View” for handoff
GitHub Integration – Code-ready assets and tighter workflow alignment

Our Take

Figma continues to expand its territory—from design to development, content, and beyond. The direction is clear: fewer tools, more unified workflows.

And while the excitement is real, so are the questions.
Will designers lose the magic of making when AI fills in the blanks? Can one platform serve everyone—from product to marketing to engineering—without becoming bloated?

Only time (and use cases) will tell.

For now, we’re excited. Inspired. And yes—already experimenting.

Watch all the announcements on config.figma

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