Config 2026
2026-06-23..2026-06-25
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[Config 2020, Config 2021, Config 2022, Config 2025, Config 2026]
who it's for
product designers, ux designers, design engineers, frontend developers, design system maintainers, creative technologists, design managers
topics
code layers and GitHub import; generative shader effects; motion timelines and keyframes; Figma design agent workflows; node-based generative pipelines; design system migration practices; prototyping for physical products; typography systems and large exports; real-time user insights in workflow; export to animated SVG MP4 WebM
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Designing Math | Grant Sanderson | 27m |
Claim: e^{iπ} spirals to −1 by summing rotated terms; show why by treating i as a 90° rotation and e^{t} as a self‑scaling motion (growth, decay, or circular… | ||
| Keynote | Dylan Field | 01h 12m |
Announces concrete features and timelines: code layers on the canvas with GitHub repo import, branch/compare/play workflows and push/pull integration (closed… | ||
| Death of the finished state | Brent David Freaney | 34m |
Describes designing a typographic album identity around a single shade of green that becomes a reusable cultural asset, built as a system for vinyl, screens… | ||
| The future is low-tech: lessons from the early 2000s | Jésabel DC | 20m |
Argues that ad-driven business models rewired design toward trapping attention and shows concrete alternatives: a Lifestyle Lab ecosystem builds a video game… | ||
| Designing in code | Elle Shwer, Iris Lin, Nikolas Klein, Ben Chen | 43m |
Demonstrations show production code flowing into the design canvas: Code layers clone GitHub repos into canvas and create interactive, branchable windows that… | ||
| Figma deep dive: Agentic workflows and the MCP | Jake Albaugh | 32m |
Claims that precise, production‑level context (MCP, Code Connect snippets, design tokens) makes agents write far more of the total code; shows a new template… | ||
| Figma deep dive: Motion | Dave Hornsby, Daniela Muntyan, Luca Damasco | 44m |
Live demo shows the new Motion Timeline with auto-keyframing, stacked animation styles and full keyframe easing plus new easing and timing variables; agents… | ||
| 10 years of daily sketching | Zach Lieberman | 19m |
A clear signal: ten years of daily coded sketches producing 10 years, thousands of sketches, with concrete techniques like shader programming and AR… | ||
| Everyone's still eating: building Notion's design system | Tamara Chu, Shauna Sapper | 21m |
Notion establishes a design system team (est. 2025) and refactors a tangled codebase by standardizing colors, type, icons and components, replacing thousands… | ||
| Figma deep dive: Agents | Tammy Taabassum, Rodrigo Davies | 27m |
Figma agent claims to act as a collaborator on the canvas: it uses web search and live connectors (Notion, Slack, Hex, Granola) to pull real data, ingests… | ||
| Figma deep dive: Weave | Gal Sharir, Ron Baranov | 41m |
A node-based canvas stitches prompts, image models (Flux 2 Pro, NanoBanana2, Recraft4) and edits into repeatable pipelines, with a text iterator producing four… | ||
| Design systems anarchy | Lauren LoPrete | 22m |
Argues that design systems must act as venues that enable experimentation not gates that enforce conformity, citing 924 Gilman, Factory Records/Hacienda, and… | ||
| Hacking AI for creative operations at scale | Rory Flynn | 21m |
Shows concrete methods: uses Figma Weave node flows to turn inputs into repeatable outputs, builds a prompt deconstruction formula, encodes rules as system… | ||
| Dense by design | Matthew Ström-Awn | 22m |
Argues a concrete framework: five definitions of density leading to value per second per pixel, backed by Tufte’s data‑to‑ink, Gestalt grouping, and time… | ||
| Figma deep dive: Generative shader effects | Yassir Solomah, Rogie King, Piers Cowburn | 33m |
Figma ships shader fills and effects that run via secure WebGPU pipelines, expose on‑canvas handles and sliders, and accept motion and variables; the built… | ||
| Writing for humans in an AI world | Chelsea Larsson | 26m |
Claim: language becomes the primary design medium, shown by a prompt reframing that turns a failed memory export into millions of successful imports; a repo… | ||
| The rules are the art: creating with AI | Holly Herndon | 20m |
Builds rule sets for art by training models from a bespoke songbook sent to 15 choirs, produces a shared choral model that generates new ensemble recordings… | ||
| How structured thinking gives your AI superpowers | Carola Pescio Canale | 18m |
Claims that a structured process—writing voice notes, extracting transcripts, and saving them as docs and skills—turns generative models into collaborators… | ||
| Figma deep dive: Make | Brett McMillin, Laura Fehre | 30m |
Claims that Make can be reliably on-system with real design systems, demonstrated by building a Make kit that installs public NPM packages, injects a… | ||
| Turning real-world motion into design | Patrick Flaherty | 22m |
Claims a practical capture-to-curve workflow that actually turns recorded gestures into usable easing curves for Figma and After Effects, not just theory. A… | ||
| Beyond design systems: designing for robots and seniors | Anna Oh | 19m |
Norbert Health builds a small white HAI device that adds four sensors and "eight patent" to off‑the‑shelf robots and detects contactless vitals, mobility, and… | ||
| Figma deep dive: Agent-built plugins | Georgia Rust, Avery Frankenberg, Jason Calleiro | 33m |
Claims that agents let designers build real Figma plugins from plain descriptions and that running them is free after creation; uses the plugin API, a new… | ||
| Designing in the age of the 10x engineer | Andy Zhang | 21m |
Claims that agents make code cheap and prototypes recyclable drive the talk: examples include a minute‑scale sync of agent diagrams into FigJam, a prototype… | ||
| Designed to be read: making a system AI can actually use | Harvey Whiting | 16m |
Meta describes rebuilding a legacy design system with Figma to make AI outputs actually usable, co‑developing a Figma Make integration and a Model Context… | ||
| The canvas is not dead | Catt Small | 24m |
Argues the canvas still matters when problems carry deep history and risk and shows what that means in practice: uses Yarn narrative framework plus… | ||
| It used to be hard to be average | André Anjos | 27m |
Clear claim: average is free because generative models return the consensus of everything instantly. Specific evidence: twenty years of music practice, early… | ||
| Legibility by design | Ryan Powell | 21m |
Waymo reports concrete results and design moves: 200 million rider-only miles and 92% reduction in serious injury crashes, a curated in-car 3D UI that renders… | ||
| How to build content systems for AI product workflows with Ditto | Jessica Ouyang, Jolena Ma | 20m |
Claim: a content system built from your live codebase keeps AI-generated copy consistent. The demo scans the repo and scans codebase to extract 99 strings 91… | ||
| Reimagining NASA.gov for Earth’s most important stories | Ben Shown, Megan Greco | 26m |
The project replaces 3,000+ fragmented sites with an atomic design system built from tokens, components, and templates, delivered via WordPress and used by 500… | ||
| Preparing Rocket for the AI era | Emily Strobl, Will Hobick | 21m |
Rocket embeds Figma end-to-end and claims measurable impact: Nova design tokens map to live code, Figma Make prototypes feed research and one-click publish… | ||
| What it feels like to build in 2026 | Tommy Geoco, Matt D. Smith, Catt Small, Rasmus Andersson | 30m |
Conference panel reports that 72% using generative AI and audience habits are split into thirds: dabblers, experimenters, and those who overhaul workflows… | ||
| Ready for the world | Vicki Tan | 24m |
A concrete account of how a concept becomes a printed book with tools and failures: a choose‑your‑own‑adventure guide called Ask This Book a Question, designed… | ||
| Patterns for restarting the world | Switch Angel, LO.FI.SCI.FI | 27m |
Argues that giving absolute freedom to text interfaces produces more intimate musical instruments, and demonstrates a working ecosystem: the open source… | ||
| Skill issue: how we built an OS for PMs at Figma | Jinen Kamdar, Lawrence Luk | 18m |
A small volunteer team builds PM OS in one month using GitHub-stored skills, connectors to Slack Asana FigJam GitHub and Figma MCP and a HexMCP experiment… | ||
| The hidden craft of interface design in modern film | Jayse Hansen | 26m |
Design files and actual artifacts decide: HUDs and holograms get built, timed, and tested — e.g. 260 shots across sequences; a Top Gun cockpit UI is animated… | ||
| Designing brand intelligence: from rules to expression | Nicole Martinez | 20m |
Claims a concrete method: map user archetypes (organizer, contributor, Venmo friend), codify emotional territories across journey stages, and stitch those into… | ||
| Scooter, screen and duct-tape: from hack to habit | Unni K. Manikoth, Harish Kumar | 23m |
Design team builds a portable test rig that runs a iPad + Figma prototype wired to physical switches via a $40 Arduino, letting ergonomic scooter controls be… | ||
| AI will upend your process—for the better | Justin Meyer | 20m |
Claims that designers and product owners can vibe code production UI from Figma into GitHub and spin up a shareable branch that runs are demonstrated end to… | ||
| Building real-time user insights into your design workflow | Prayag Narula | 19m |
Claims a concrete system: a JavaScript-triggered in-app AI interviewer that records screens, asks follow-ups, and pushes video feedback into Marvin for instant… | ||
| Be the director: how stage craft informs product craft | Kim Beverett | 22m |
Argues that directing choices map to product decisions with concrete examples: Peter Brook’s 1970 A Midsummer Night’s Dream uses a white box and a spine of… | ||
| The marathon designer and creative endurance | Socrates Charisis | 21m |
Claims a three-part practice—sustainable pacing, builder culture, versatile hiring—with concrete tactics: hiring one unlookable hire from 56 applicants because… | ||
| Own the loop: how designers and researchers win with AI evals | Setor Zilevu | 19m |
A concrete claim: designers and researchers must own AI evaluation by defining what “good” means, writing rubrics, calibrating graders and feeding those… | ||
| Out of sync, on purpose: desktop design after mobile won | Giulio Fagiolini | 19m |
Spotify’s desktop team treats desktop as its own product: a 100 million‑user, highly engaged cohort; a third of users already use peripheral controls so the… | ||
| Usernames on Instagram: how a craft fix became an identity crisis | Rose McManus | 20m |
A small interface fix about whether to show display names or usernames escalates into an identity problem: bots exploit story viewer list showed display names… | ||
| Quirk up your workplace | Darby Thomas | 16m |
Claims that a 100% remote design culture boosts morale by shipping goofy artifacts and tools, with concrete examples and tools: 3D-printed Octocat keycaps… | ||
| Designing with confidence in an AI-powered world | Bobby Meixner | 17m |
Research shows a speed–confidence gap: 183 designers surveyed, 91% report faster work but only 15% feel much more confident and 65% cannot say outcomes… | ||
| The invisible mechanisms in your interfaces | Johannes Mutter | 23m |
A fifteen-year collection of patterns becomes an interactive library called interface lineage that models ancestry and surfaces concrete fixes. Named… | ||
| Connecting Google Workspace and Figma | Addison Rodomista, Chloe Fagan-Tucker | 21m |
Claims: Figma links become smart chips in Docs, an embed interactive canvas in Meet lets everyone pan and edit live, Meet’s take notes for me captures crit… | ||
| Managing multiple creative passions in a specialized world | Lauren Hom | 29m |
Finds a 12‑year‑old diary, quits a 23‑year‑old ad job after eating raw ravioli, and turns a college lettering side project Daily Dishonesty into paid work… | ||
| Best practices are trapped in your head and your AI has no idea | Harald Kirschner | 21m |
Claim: capture team taste in code so agents start with context not blank slate. Uses VS Code agents, a prototyping repo with agents.md plus file-based… | ||
| Designing money: how to build a trustworthy brand in the age of AI | Chris Warner | 23m |
Plaid rebrands by turning a FigJam scrap into procedurally generated guilloche that shimmers in product flows, using image generators, cloud code and Figma to… | ||
| Gnarly by design: building systems with grit | Beau Wingfield | 23m |
Argues that gritty, texture-heavy design systems do scale: a nine-slice approach and atomic slice components make textured edges repeatable and… | ||
| Prototyping for the physical world | Frederik Ueberschär, Sam Thorne | 24m |
Claim: the feedback loop shrinks from six months to two minutes by streaming Figma prototypes to real appliance screens. Built hardware includes Figma Displays… | ||
| From handoffs to upstream | Frederick Andersen | 21m |
A small Copenhagen studio intentionally shifts from handoffs to pushing to clients' Git repos, running design systems as production code and sitting upstream… | ||
| ESPN's migration playbook: moving to Figma w/ One North | Matt Roger, Elliott Muñoz | 17m |
ESPN migrates from Photoshop to Figma and claims concrete results: migrated 7,000 individual designs, tackled content that balloons to north of 10 million team… | ||
| 300GB story: how to inspire action when data isn’t enough | Luke Fiorante, Sirinda Limsong | 20m |
They claim 300 GB of NASA climate projections become a human-scale story by building Habitat2100 in Figma, turning raw maps and species sightings into ML… | ||
| Protoypes, failures, and unexpected breakthroughs | Noah Finer | 23m |
Prototype work logs how decisions land: a weeklong prototype pushes Figma Slides from an infinite placeholder mess to a committed single-slide grid; two failed… | ||
| From concept to confidence with Dscout AI | Lauren Madura, Michael Winnick | 19m |
Claims that a suite called dscout AI studio turns idea-to-insight cycles from weeks into days by auto-crawling a prototype URL, generating a study from… | ||
| Build like it's 2030. Listen like you mean it. | Ned Dwyer | 18m |
Claims that design survives by getting strategic and rebuilt AI-native in a year, backed by concrete moves: ceding UI production to Claude ChatGPT and Gemini… | ||
| Design for the future of apps | Craig Labenz | 20m |
A demo called Gen Latte uses Gemini and Nano Banana to generate images then prints them on real lattes proving Gen UI can be end to end the team builds both a… | ||
| The metacognitive design loop | Jenny Au, Mike Green | 20m |
Claims that moving QA to the front with a Metacognitive Design Loop and tying Figma Code Connect to a bespoke Core UI MCP and BRD agent lets AI self-audit… | ||
| Closing keynote | Dylan Field | 02m |
Closing notes summarize what actually happened: an event for 10,000 people with unexpected moments like attendees asking to trade plushies, a convention hall… | ||
| Dimensional shift: sculpting in Figma Draw | Josh McKenna | 15m |
A practical recipe: a unified Figma Draw workflow that turns flat vectors into tangible 3D shapes by layering radial gradient fills with stacked inner shadow… | ||
| The edge case is everyone | Willie King, Lex Liley | 20m |
T-Mobile and Kettle present a concrete design effort addressing communication gaps used by more than 11 million Deaf or Hard of Hearing Americans and a broader… | ||
| The world of street art and care-filled design | Ella Rochelle-Lawton | 20m |
Design work on the street means building and testing in public: a Seismic at San Francisco General mural, a downtown billboard that students unexpectedly see… | ||
| Prompts to fashion: AI-powered 3D-printed garments | Danit Peleg | 22m |
Claims a working pipeline that converts sewing patterns into full‑size, soft 3D‑printable textiles using Figma Weave and an AI-to-G-code generator, prints… | ||
| Don't forget the feeling: a critique of software in 2026 | Luis Ouriach | 27m |
Argues that AI accelerates actual output and gives concrete wins: using the Figma API and AI-generated code shipped 10 plugins in 18 months and shows rising… | ||
| Designing the product that can do anything | Brian Ringley | 21m |
Claims a humanoid industrial robot (Atlas) becomes an economics solution by turning hardware gaps into software problems and shows the tooling that makes it… | ||
| In praise of dark mode | Mehmet Aydın Baytaş | 20m |
Claim: all user interfaces should default to darkness, dubbed Dark Mode Maximalism. Cited benefits include 40–50% power reduction on OLED tests and lower… | ||
| The most important component: community | Alicia Kranjc | 23m |
Argument: community is the product moat, not just a slogan. Figma opens an ecosystem of plugins, widgets and a Photo Booth camera that started as a maker‑week… | ||
| Human methods, new material: AI for the classroom | Mubarak Marafa, Wendy Liao | 21m |
A 0–1 product story that gives the claims, tools, and results: the team finds 3.5 million teachers inside 27M users, prototypes with teachers in classrooms and… | ||
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