Figma: code layers, animations and AI — how this changes designer‑developer collaboration

Friends, I’d like to share news from the design and development world: Figma introduced code layers, animation support, shaders and enhanced AI tools.

- Code layers let teams clone repositories and surface code streams as design layers — making interface testing with engineers more seamless.
- Built‑in animations, transitions and 3D transforms remove the need to export motion to external tools.
- AI assists in generating shaders, assets and reusable “skills,” and enables creating custom plugins via prompts; integrations with GitHub, Excel and Notion provide context.

Why it matters: iteration between designers, PMs and engineers accelerates — prototypes align more closely with production code.

How do you plan to leverage these capabilities in your projects?

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