Schema by Figma 2025
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Announcements | 01m | |
Recap announces Extended Collections, Slots, and Check Designs with a tentative rollout schedule (dates may vary) and a pointer to the official recap for exact… | ||
| How We're Bringing Design Systems into Make | 01m | |
An early look at how we’re bringing design systems into Figma Make:
→ Export libraries and convert them to React with Make Kits (early access sign-up)
OR
→… | ||
| a consistent and on-brand scent | Marwan El Anbari, Rachel Hamar, Yosub Kim, Jacob Miller, Sarah Kelley, Kyle Sauer, Colin Burgess, Yosef Munro, Zaq Landsberg, Emile Domise, Dan Castelli, Leila Plouffe, Sarah Lawrence, Ben Jones, TRANG NGUYEN, Yunqi Yang, Kevin Tadge, Jared Rosenthal | 01m |
Claims a repeatable brand system that turns scattered components into a single product: a conceptual “scent” built from Extended Collections and Variable Modes… | ||
| Keynote | Paige Costello | 01h 03m |
Figma announces specific design system upgrades: a core remodel yields up to 60% faster basic editing and 3x faster prototyping, asset publishes drop from… | ||
| DTCG W3C release and adapting design systems for multiple brands | Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent | 21m |
W3C design tokens spec reaches a stable, production-ready JSON spec and Figma adds native import and export aligned to it, exporting a ZIP of JSON files (one… | ||
| Introducing Slots (new feature) | Nathan Curtis | 20m |
Slots replace pseudo-slot utilities with real editable areas so designers can duplicate, reorder, and add items directly — checkbox groups shed hidden layers… | ||
| Design systems at altitude | Clasonda Armstrong Grandison | 11m |
After a merger that keeps both identities, the team reconstructs a design system called Oro Borealis using Figma variables and tokens to maintain separate… | ||
| The future of design systems and AI | Matt Fichtner | 12m |
Claim: AI plus tighter tooling closes the "chasm of despair" between design and code by syncing meaning, not just files. Figma now lets teams import production… | ||
| Design systems for infinity | Rachel Been | 18m |
Claims that design systems must be machine readable so they can recompose in real time for personalization, with Expedia supporting three flagship brands and a… | ||
| Empowering designers: AI, design systems, and quality | Grant Blakeman | 14m |
LinkedIn’s design systems team treats the system as a queryable service: docs and specs live in the core Figma library, tokens flow through MCP into Figma… | ||
| Crafting design context for agentic coding workflows | Jake Albaugh | 22m |
Figma demonstrates linking design to production by shipping Code Connect to map components to repo files, exposing variables with custom code syntax and a… | ||
| Design-to-code and beyond: inside Coinbase’s MCP ecosystem | Siddharth Kulkarni | 12m |
Coinbase runs a cross platform design system CDS with 100+ components and eight major releases, and solves slow handoffs by exposing Code Connect snippets in… | ||
| Making the right thing the easy thing | Elynn Lee | 10m |
Figma’s internal design system centers adoption on accessibility, using concrete tools and results: automated code mods to migrate code, unstyled primitives… | ||
| Closing thoughts | Dylan Field | 04m |
Conference recap argues that design systems are the concrete infrastructure being built and shipped via recent product launches and that they connect design to… | ||
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