Figma adds an AI assistant to its collaborative canvas | TechCrunch

"Figma has struck partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to bake in support for AI CLI tools like Claude Code and Codex to allow users to use these coding environments alongside its design software. The company is now baking in its own take on AI smarts via a new AI agent that operates within its collaborative canvas."

"Figma says users can employ natural language text prompts to direct its new AI agent to generate new designs, edit existing ones, or automate tasks such as generating iterations of existing designs. Users can even fire up multiple agents that can do various tasks simultaneously."

"Figma says users can employ natural language text prompts to direct its new AI agent to generate new designs, edit existing ones, or automate tasks such as generating iterations of existing designs. Users can even fire up multiple agents that can do various tasks simultaneously. The company claims the AI assistant understands design contexts and elements since it runs on AI models that are fine-tuned for design use."

""As building software gets easier, what matters most is setting direction: deciding what to work on, how it should function, what the experience should feel like. Teams can now collaborate with agents on the multiplayer canvas to test out ideas, visualize edge cases, and refine concepts together without over-indexing on the more tedious parts," Figma's chief design officer, Loredana Crisan, said in a statement."

Figma has partnered with OpenAI and Anthropic to support AI CLI tools such as Claude Code and Codex alongside its design software. Figma is also introducing its own AI agent that operates within its collaborative canvas. Users can direct the agent with natural-language prompts to generate new designs, edit existing designs, and automate tasks like producing iterations. Multiple agents can run simultaneously to handle different tasks. The agent is designed to understand design context and elements by using AI models fine-tuned for design. The agent launches first in Figma Design, with plans to expand to other products and bring design and code closer together.

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