Google and Figma partner in bid to remake real-time design with Gemini 2.5

"Figma, the cloud-based interface design tool, and Google Cloud, the computing and storage platform,have announced the integration of Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash directly into Figma's design platform. The collaboration aims to let designers generate visuals and make edits almost instantly, eliminating the lag between an idea and its execution. For users, that means faster collaboration, smoother iteration, and a more natural creative flow."

""The economic significance of latency in AI is far greater than just speed-it's about changing the commercial viability and product experience for every application built on a generative model," says Matt Renner, president of global revenue at Google Cloud. Lower latency, in turn, decreases computational and financial expenses, allowing the AI tools to become more scalable and efficient for high-volume tasks, he added."

"Gemini 2.5 Flash (also known as "Nano Banana") rose to prominence for its ability to merge multiple images, keep characters consistent across edits, and generate a wide range of styles, from lifelike portraits to classic art, in mere seconds. Google claims that in early integrations of Gemini 2.5 Flash, Figma users saw a 50% reduction in latency for the platform's "Make Image" feature, unlocking faster image generation capabilities for its users."

""In Figma, every second AI can return to the user, whether it's time saved renaming layers, editing images or even generating multiple images at the same time, frees them up to focus on the kind of higher-level problem solving and deep iteration that's at the root of all great design," says Abhishek Mathur, vice president of platform engineer"

Figma integrated Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash into its design platform to enable near-instant image generation and editing, reducing latency and smoothing creative workflows. The integration allows designers to generate visuals and make edits quickly, improving collaboration and iteration while preserving creative flow. Gemini 2.5 Flash can merge multiple images, keep characters consistent across edits, and produce a wide range of styles in seconds. Early integrations reportedly reduced latency for Figma's "Make Image" feature by 50 percent. Lower latency reduces computational and financial costs, enhancing scalability and freeing designers to focus on higher-level problem solving and deep iteration.

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