Figma’s 2024 Update: AI-Powered Tools Unveiled at Config 2024
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What is Figma?
Figma is the world’s most popular and powerful creative tool that makes UX/UI Design accessible to all. Users can create everything from logos, and websites to complex software applications.? Figma is widely used in online communities and digital media which promotes cooperation by allowing users to share templates, designs, and widgets with millions of people worldwide.?
At Figma’s annual user conference, Config 2024 they announced an exciting array of AI-powered tools designed to transform the design process. These innovative features are set to enhance creativity, streamline workflows, and foster better collaboration among designers.?
Below is a summary of these new groundbreaking features:
Figma’s new Visual Search feature uses advanced image recognition technology to help designers find visually similar assets quickly. Simply upload or select an image, and Visual Search will identify matching elements within your library or the broader Figma community. This tool saves time and sparks creativity by making asset discovery simple.
The AI-enhanced Asset Search leverages Natural Language Processing (NLP) to understand your inquiry and provide relevant results. The tool learns from your searches and selections, offering increasingly personalized and accurate suggestions. Say goodbye to endless scrolling and hello to intelligent asset discovery.
With AI-powered content generation, Figma can create first drafts of your designs in seconds. This feature incorporates realistic text and visuals, allowing you to quickly iterate and refine your work. Whether you’re starting a new project or looking for inspiration, this tool helps you move from concept to creation faster than ever.
Figma’s text management tools make editing effortless. Translate, shorten, or rewrite text with a single click. These AI-enhanced features ensure your content is clear, concise, and perfectly tailored to your audience, making it easier to maintain consistency across all your designs.
Turn static mockups into interactive prototypes quickly with Figma’s enhanced prototyping features. This capability simplifies the process of bringing your ideas to life, making it easier to test and gather feedback. Rapid prototyping helps you iterate faster and create more polished final products.
Figma’s Rename Layers feature saves you hours of tedious work by automatically renaming layers to keep your files organized and developer-ready. This small but mighty update ensures your projects stay tidy and professional, reducing errors during the handoff process.
The Actions panel now includes a tool that generates UI layouts and component options from text prompts. Describe what you need, and Figma will provide you with a first draft, sparking creativity and speeding up the design process. This feature is perfect for brainstorming and getting a head start on new projects.
Figma Slide makes creating professional presentations a breeze. With advanced design capabilities, co-creation tools, and built-in features to engage your audience, crafting impressive slide decks has never been easier. Stand out in meetings and presentations with visually stunning and impactful slides.
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We spoke with our UX/UI team and asked which is their new favorite tool and which features they were looking forward to the most:??
Ayepa - Team Lead?
“My favorite new Figma feature is ‘Figma AI’.? This feature allows us to turn rough ideas into fully editable designs almost instantly, and importantly It can speed up our design process by reducing the time spent on initial drafts. If I were to suggest an update to Figma AI, I would like to see more advanced customization options like including setting specific design constraints, styles, or themes before generating the design, allowing designers to have more control over the outcome.”
Ploy - Mid-level Designer
“I quite like the ‘Multi-edit feature’. This feature allows for two types of editing: Multi-edit text and Multi-edit variants. You can select objects with the same name and make a single edit, which will then apply to all objects with that name, without needing to spend time selecting that object in other design screens. This feature in particular is a time-saving tool, I love it. I am also looking more on Figma AI to generate an editable history of changes in a document format that I can download for reporting to my team."
Krarok - Mid-level Designer
“The ‘Divider feature’ is my favorite, as it helps in organizing pages and separating workspace,?especially for me who loves creating new pages. It highlights the development team's dedication to user-centric design. Moreover, I look forward to managing comments features by hiding those from specific people or by setting roles for each person. For example, being able to see only QA comments or only customer comments. This feature would make the design revision process much easier, allowing us to present and separate notes more effectively. It would also improve collaboration by helping team members focus on the most relevant comments one step at a time.”
Jes - Junior Designer
“I really like the ‘Replace Content’ feature. It allows for quick replacement of placeholder content in auto layout, which improves efficiency and provides better mockups for presentations. Anyway, I would be looking forward to how Figma will develop their current and upcoming AI feature without disrupting our designers but make it a good tool to use.”
Pleng - Junior Designer
“For me, my favorite goes to ‘Auto Layout Rename’, which automatically renames layouts based on the content and structure. Ensuring that your layouts are consistently named and easy to navigate. Helping to organize the flies is a big time saving for me. To be honest, there's no specific feature that I’m particularly looking forward to. I'm just excited to see how all the new updates will improve the design experience, and I’m eager to explore how they can enhance my workflow.”
Eye - Junior Designer
“I like the new ‘Figma interfaces’. For example, the right-hand side of the properties window has been improved. This allows us to categorize UI customizations easily and more neatly. It also allows us to save more workspace. There're no specific features that I'm looking for. But hopefully, Figma will develop the program to be easy to use and meet the needs of designers and developers to make us able to work together.”
Figma’s 2024 update, introduces a suite of AI-powered tools set to revolutionize and optimize the design process. From Visual Search and AI-enhanced Asset Search to rapid prototyping and smart text management, these features make Figma THE tool for designers of all experience levels.
We can’t wait to try the advanced AI in services, for example, customization options, editable history of changes, comment management features, and tools that allow developers and designers to collaborate more seamlessly in Figma. What are you looking forward to?
What’s your favorite new Figma feature??