Config 2025
2025-05-06..2025-05-08
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[Config 2020, Config 2021, Config 2022, Config 2025, Config 2026]
who it's for
product designers, design managers, design technologists, frontend developers, design system engineers, product managers, ux researchers
topics
Figma Sites responsive HTML; Grid auto-layout with CSS export; streaming React and Tailwind code; vector editing and texture effects; playable prototypes and Make workflow; design systems for AI ecosystems; web components for inclusive development; programmable color systems; shaders for the modern web; cross-platform iOS and Android design
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Figma product launch keynote | Dylan Field | 01h 23m |
Announces four new products and an editor upgrade with concrete outcomes: 56 updates shipped this year, average file size +18%, slowest files load 33% faster… | ||
| Expressive design and illustration in Figma Draw | Rogie King, Lauren Budorick, Tim Van Damme | 47m |
Figma Draw surfaces concrete, testable features: a lasso tool for fast vertex selection, delete and heal that auto-advances and cleans holes, multi‑vector edit… | ||
| How top designers find their path and creative spark | Kevin Twohy | 21m |
Claims that small teams of three to seven people reliably produce a distinct live, urgent creativity; actual tactics that work: ditching visuals to talk until… | ||
| Growth design as art and science | Becca Ramos | 20m |
Tests compare concrete variants: a feature‑list headline (variant B) beats a benefits headline and lifts conversions within two weeks; shrinking the hero… | ||
| Unlearning design: how testing transformed my work | Grace Walker | 21m |
Leaves a freelance practice to join Spellbook to answer whether 100+ marketing websites actually drive results copies old top landing pages into the new site… | ||
| From storytelling as a PM to storytelling as a film director | Ebi Atawodi | 21m |
Compares concrete artifacts—pitch deck, tagline, logline, storyboard—and maps roles and rituals (producer as program manager, cinematographer as UX, editor as… | ||
| Beyond agents: AI as a creative partner | Joel Lewenstein | 19m |
Argues that AI should move from delegated assistant/co-pilot/agent roles to a tested creative partner model: concrete prototypes show what that means —… | ||
| The maximalist theory of minimalism | Keegan McNamara | 23m |
Argues that modern minimalism really hides ornament as engineered smoothness while historical craft puts ornament on display, and shows how that matters with… | ||
| Poetry Camera and falling back in love with technology | Kelin Zhang, Ryan Mather | 19m |
Designers turn a daydream into a physical product by wiring up a Raspberry Pi, a receipt printer, and AI models guided by ChatGPT, iterate for two years, and… | ||
| Welcome | Sheila Vashee, Shaunt Voskanian | 05m |
Announces that Figma expands core tooling and now hosts end to end product development inside the app, claiming it doubled product offering to nine products by… | ||
| Redefining fan engagement in the NBA | Jay Lee, Ellen McGirt | 22m |
Claims concrete audience scale and engineering choices: an app and rearchitected tech stack supporting League Pass in 200 territories, pushed 124 billion… | ||
| Accelerating innovation: Y Combinator | Garry Tan, Dylan Field | 22m |
Claim: 25% of YC batch with 95% AI-generated code. Details: YC handles 800 startups a year and 80,000 applications, reorganizes to avoid turning partners into… | ||
| Rediscovering design collaboration with Atlassian | Christina Nguyen White | 22m |
Claims concrete workflows and measurable outcomes: Loom AI joins Zoom to auto‑record and transcribe meetings, generate timestamped action items and push them… | ||
| The rise of the design engineer | Honey Mittal, Sohaib Muhammad | 17m |
Claims that designers can become full-stack design engineers by using a Figma workflow that converts frames to production UI code; Locofy’s Figma plugin runs… | ||
| Design systems in an AI first ecosystem | Bharat Batra, Noah Silverstein | 17m |
Claims a concrete workflow: KOD plus Figma integrations and an AI layer (Kodrain) ingest Google Drive Slack Jira Confluence and Figma to keep variables synced… | ||
| How fast feedback enables smart design | Mike McDowell | 20m |
The demo shows an actual integration that lets teams generate a study from Figma, auto-create tasks with AI, and launch tests that fill in under an hour… | ||
| The magic of ‹div›RIOTS plugins | Georges Gomes | 17m |
About 25 Figma plugins built over four years claim concrete capabilities: html.to.design captures live pages into layered Figma files, story.to.design… | ||
| The evolution of brand identities | Mike Abbink, Phi Hoang, Ryan Putnam, Damien Correll | 43m |
A concise account of outcomes not promises: a custom typeface ships as IBM Plex open-source typeface and embeds in Figma, a brand is built publicly using… | ||
| Influencing via prototyping | Cheechee Lin | 20m |
Claim: prototyping moves strategy when it makes an idea feel real, believable, and testable. Examples: a hacked Photoshop prototype called Imagine Me helps… | ||
| When products must die | Subham Agarwal | 18m |
Claims a concrete five‑step RADAR framework (Read Assess Decide Act Review) and shows it by sunsetting Ramp Flex, a one‑click pay‑later feature that had strong… | ||
| How to pitch ideas and cut through the noise | Wojtek Dziedzic | 22m |
Claim: presentation, not idea, decides adoption. Concrete win: relocate drag-and-drop import on home view for NordPass and observe retention jump from 12% to… | ||
| Building digital products as a company of one | Christine Vallaure de la Paz | 20m |
Runs Moon Learning as a one‑person subscription platform built on no‑code systems, claims running costs of €324 a month and typical profit margins of 90%+… | ||
| Making the leap from design to business | Parteek Saran | 19m |
Designers already ship products and run businesses: built a prototype workflow with Composer, launched a tool called form that later is Form acquired by… | ||
| The space-filling curve of design | Helena Zhang | 18m |
Makes a case that a slower, iterative path yields a richer product and shows how it happens: 9,000 icons across 11 libraries informs process, research ranges… | ||
| Building in public with Figma: designers should be creators | Nolan Perkins | 20m |
A TikTok comment sparks TaskTree, a quick Figma prototype turns into a native app in 32 days, and the product grows to about 75,000 users within three months… | ||
| Advancing animation with engineering and design | Natalie Glance, Abhishek Mathur | 19m |
Cross-discipline work yields concrete outcomes: an AI-driven video call with Lily that adapts to learner level, manages turn-taking and stores memory; a gamey… | ||
| Building for the physical world | Jae Park, Timothy Allen, Mike Wittig | 40m |
Clear claims and artifacts: an AI-powered caper cart that uses computer vision and weight sensors to total items and enable checkout without lines; a new app… | ||
| Maturing your teams & your leadership | Charlie Sutton, Josh Higgins, Christina Nguyen White, David Hoang, Andrew Hogan | 41m |
A concrete account of what actually changes: a two‑and‑a‑half year visual rebrand that rebuilds spacing grids, design tokens and a home app; rationalizing… | ||
| Reimagining the NFL app | Lauren Manning, Arjun Kalyanpur | 20m |
A rebuilt, modular NFL app centers on a single game card super component that encodes scores, timeouts, broadcast entitlements, light/dark and accessibility… | ||
| Designing positive futures | John LePore | 22m |
Designs claim concrete engineering logic behind sci‑fi props: a vibranium sand (ultrasonic levitation) concept tied to real acoustic levitation research; uses… | ||
| Building design systems together | Jake Albaugh, Chad Bergman | 54m |
Shows a real mini system called rewind design system and its working web components, not just slides about why systems matter. Demonstrates Figma variables… | ||
| Rituals & skills in the age of AI | Yuhki Yamashita, Shishir Mehrotra | 17m |
Company notes: Koda is now part of Grammarly and teams adopt Dory and Pulse to remove groupthink; weekly Launchpad meetings, karaoke and spelling bees persist… | ||
| Crafting quality that endures | Karri Saarinen | 20m |
Claims that quality is the core strategy, not a nicety: build small cross‑functional teams, use intuition and customer conversations over A/B as sole arbiter… | ||
| Designing dystopia: the creative vision behind Severance | Jeremy Hindle | 36m |
Claims that each season is treated like a 10-hour film with about 2.5 years of build time, and that production actually builds and tests the props and… | ||
| Building the next computing platform | Dylan Field, Andrew Bosworth | 31m |
Conference session claims the current app interaction paradigm is probably wrong and outlines 10- and 20-year timelines for change, arguing interfaces become… | ||
| Unlocking creativity with GitHub and Figma | Diana Mounter, Cole Bemis | 22m |
GitHub demos a concrete design-to-code pipeline: GitHub Spark generates working prototypes (it runs the prompt three times to produce three variants and builds… | ||
| Designing for Climate Disaster | Megan Metzger | 24m |
Forerunner builds a geospatial‑forward platform with an offline-first mobile UI, photo integration, embedded FEMA-approved cost calculations and one‑click FEMA… | ||
| Crossing the chasm between quality and performance | Ricardo Vazquez | 22m |
Team rebuilds a brick‑and‑mortar point‑of‑sale using React Native, defines load‑lifecycle metrics (first meaningful paint, time to interactive) and sets… | ||
| Writing is designing | Andy Welfle | 23m |
Argues that language shapes every design layer with concrete examples: a DoorDash UI becomes unusable without labels, a Clipper kiosk mislabels adding money… | ||
| Designing for play and friction in a fast-paced world | Michelle Lee | 21m |
IDEO Play Lab argues that adding deliberate obstacles improves meaning and learning, and shows it: a playable browser game Wait, wait, wait with shared code… | ||
| Redesigning the computer mouse | Corten Singer, Ryan Hudson-Peralta | 24m |
A custom dental retainer with flexible stretchable PCBs houses a tongue trackpad plus wireless Bluetooth, head-tracking cursor, and sip‑and‑puff inputs, tested… | ||
| How to be a robot whisperer | Madeline Gannon | 20m |
Shows a specific claim: designers can reshape robotics by connecting sensors to motion — piping cameras and motion capture markers into an off-the-shelf… | ||
| How Nicole McLaughlin reimagines waste and discarded materials | Nicole McLaughlin | 16m |
Designs reclaimed office and factory samples into wearable objects using cutting, hot glue, stapling, sewing and rapid prototyping; a viral IKEA sandal and a… | ||
| Breaking and entering (and building culture along the way) | Jeff Staple | 30m |
Print and silk-screen setup details: using Quark Express and Photoshop and silk-screen to make tees after hours, crawling through a window to print. An early… | ||
| Designing, prototyping, and publishing websites with Figma Sites | Anthony DiSpezio, Adam Lehman | 38m |
Figma Sites claims designers can design, prototype, and publish real sites from one canvas: it copies Figma Design layers, supports blocks and auto layout for… | ||
| Typography is the foundation of any design system | Elliot Jay Stocks | 25m |
Claim: typography is the technical backbone of a design system not just a style choice. Examples include using a grade axis in Roboto Flex to match light and… | ||
| The art of not naming your layers | Inga Hampton | 16m |
Makes an orb in Figma from a single circle turned into a mask, layering shapes with background blur at low opacity and using blend modes—lighten, color dodge… | ||
| Please, no glue on the cutting mat | designing for cinema | Annie Atkins | 26m |
Creates tactile period paper props using feather quill, rubber stamps and real typewriters, builds packets, Mendles boxes and antique newspapers, and prints a… | ||
| From prompt to code | Nikolas Klein, Holly Li, Daniel DeStefanis, Peter Ng, Vincent van der Meulen, Alex Kern, Rohit Chouhan, Darragh Burke | 54m |
Figma Make and Code in Sites claim real outcomes: paste a Figma node and it converts Figma nodes to working React code that runs in-place, with demos of a… | ||
| Better research, better design | Ned Dwyer | 16m |
Claims a single platform runs interviews surveys prototype tests and pricing research, with Figma integration and AI that auto-suggests method, sample size and… | ||
| The design decisions of Figma Buzz | Natasha Tenggoro, Aosheng Ran, Kaitie Chambers | 35m |
Figma launches Buzz as a dedicated marketing editor that imports designs via copy and paste from Figma Design, lets authors publish templates and enforces… | ||
| Structure your designs with Figma Grid, a new way to use auto layout | Kelly Hu, Giorgio Caviglia | 33m |
Grid is a new beta auto layout option that adds true two‑dimensional rows and columns, so containers are responsive by default and items can drag to span cells… | ||
| Inclusive development through web components | Nick Villapiano | 22m |
Claims that a single web‑component library can replace framework duplication and integrate with existing toolchains while preserving design‑system parity. Uses… | ||
| Connecting code with craft | Katie Langerman, Lukas Opperman | 20m |
Designers at GitHub present concrete outcomes: a design token refactor that standardizes names, produces a production-ready JSON, and rolls out via feature… | ||
| Programmable colors: bridging design and code | Irina Nazarova, Arthur Objartel | 20m |
Claim: OKLCH gives true perceptual control so hue shifts keep lightness and chroma constant and produce uniform families instead of unpredictable hacks. Demos… | ||
| Using AI to turn designs into clean code | Steve Sewell | 20m |
Builder.io demos a visual editor that connects to a real Next.js repo running in a VM, ingests a Figma import mapped to the project’s design system, and edits… | ||
| New options for accessible design | Tal Kailler | 17m |
A Figma plugin called design assistant scans components and layouts, flags concrete failures (for one copied button it finds 26 default variants but only 24… | ||
| Making a 3D world with 2D pixels in Figma | David Galavotti | 22m |
Claims a live pipeline: textures fetched from Figma via REST API load into a 3JS/WebGL scene with HDR lighting and web workers, assets served at multiple… | ||
| The future of the web is paved with shaders | Maxime Heckel | 20m |
Claims practical shader recipes for the web: how GLSL shaders run on WebGL and WebGPU to make realistic glass, refraction, diffuse lighting, color dispersion… | ||
| How to make interactive animations with Figma | Carmen Ansio | 19m |
Live demo shows a working Arcane‑style web playground built entirely in Figma and exported straight to LottieFiles, claiming no After Effects or custom… | ||
| Tech as a playbook, not as the solution | Raylene Yung | 22m |
Argues that the tech playbook — not tech itself — moves messy systems by building clear components, models, and tools and optimizing for impact. Shows USDR… | ||
| Crafting your AI play(book) | Lane Patrick Shackleton, Mihika Kapoor | 25m |
Argues that framing product work as play actually changes outcomes, showing concrete builds: a brevity and tone dial inside Figma Slides that reduces choice… | ||
| Design at the speed of startups | Gabriel Valdivia | 21m |
Design choices focus on concrete tradeoffs: build artifacts in a couple days or even a couple hours, use prototypes and short walkthrough videos, and accept… | ||
| Power of collective intelligence | Chris Lattner, Sho Kuwamoto | 43m |
Grad‑level prototype becomes a 25‑year‑old infrastructure with open source releases every six months; the compiler stack evolves into clang with far friendlier… | ||
| Enabling teams with AI | Matt Boncek, Adam Presson, Facundo Ruiz, David Kossnick | 56m |
Conference panel reports concrete outcomes: deep AI integration doubles chances of market-share gains, a playground and agent platform called Beri power… | ||
| The wild west of collaborative brand design | Chara Smith, Mike Smith | 21m |
Studio shares a working Figma file — not a PDF — including moodboards, iterations and live components, and it attracts 1,500 cursors until Figma flips the file… | ||
| Trust is the currency: designing dollar bills, credit cards, and crypto | Jude Sue | 21m |
Claim: trust is the actual product designers trade in, demonstrated by concrete builds and outcomes. A spatial demo generates entire VR worlds from one image… | ||
| Context is everything | Carlo Michelangelo Luetto, Felipe Rocha | 20m |
Slides show the actual moves: a simplified feather with a rising arrow and refined wordmark, a pared palette that reserves Robinhood neon electric yellow-green… | ||
| Unifying design and development through design systems | Tali Krakowsky Apel, Samira Rahimi, Marcel Weekes | 57m |
Claims and numbers: a design system reaches 94% adoption after years of work, one app hits above 80% adoption, and a global org supports 150+ apps by treating… | ||
| Live with Baratunde Thurston: the human side of AI | Baratunde Thurston | 33m |
Built an AI co‑producer named Blair built on Google 1.5 Pro using Azure cognitive services and Fast Whisper, with Claude coding most of Blair, and the team… | ||
| The mess and the magic of innovative design | Wade Convay | 50m |
Google design describes concrete wins and failures: audits of 450 marketing sites lead to unified web standards; design tokens let Maps move from ~50% to 95%… | ||
| Pixels and prompts: building products in the AI era | Mike Krieger, Paige Costello | 27m |
AI gets woven into every step: Claude as first-line security researcher cuts review time from weeks to days; a growth marketer uses Cloud Code to build a Figma… | ||
| Figma product launch keynote | Dylan Field, Yuhki Yamashita | 01h 14m |
Figma announces concrete new products and measurable wins: Figma Make uses Claude 3.7 to turn designs into interactive prototypes (including device hardware… | ||
| The Future of Digital-First Rebrand | Vishal Kapoor, Kishan Koriya | 23m |
Rebrand of Lloyds Bank ships in 9 months by embedding a digital-first design language into Figma, using design tokens and variables that are tokens synced to… | ||
| Driving industry transformation | Giuseppe Perri, Adam Morris, Ellen McGirt | 34m |
Volvo integrates legacy engineering with software by simulating millions of incidents (transcript: gshian splatting) to train safety models, using computer… | ||
| Reinventing Polaroid in the Digital Age | Stine Bauer Dahlberg, Yuhki Yamashita | 20m |
Polaroid Flip launched weeks ago and is a real, shipping camera that took about three years of earnest work to build and manufacture; the live demo shows… | ||
| Building color palettes for the modern web | Dan Hollick | 16m |
Tailwind CSS updates its palettes to target wide‑gamut displays by authoring colors in OKLCH then constraining values to the P3 gamut. A custom web tool shows… | ||
| How Figma became my gateway to physical product design | Timothy Achumba | 20m |
Design work starts in Figma and turns into manufactured keyboards: keycap sets Gestal and Motif are prototyped in Figma, visualized with the Blender add‑on… | ||
| Designing for both iOS and Android—the right way | Christine Røde | 20m |
Claim: designing natively for each OS yields richer animations, fewer engineering hacks, and better accessibility. Examples: rebuilding Arc Search UI patterns… | ||
| Stop with the dirty tricks: confessions of a UX skeptic | Ningfei Ou | 18m |
Argues that UX is hitting an age of skepticism because specific tricks erode trust: $29.90 charm pricing and a pasted-over 1490 sale sticker that actually… | ||
| The web hasn’t happened yet | Nick Jones, Devin Jacoviello | 22m |
A design team shows concrete results not rhetoric: a Stripe Press portfolio including a Port Charles Almanac with a 3D balloon and a book site that drove over… | ||
| Where design meets story | Gary Hustwit, Noah Levin | 29m |
Claims a film can change every screening: generative film Eno assembles from 500 hours of archive into versions with fixed bookend scenes and about 70%… | ||
| nothing matches | ||