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Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
Figma and Adobe no longer see a path toward regulatory approval
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How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night
The solution we found helps us run Figma plugins in a safe way — i.e. not eval(UNTRUSTED_CODE).
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How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale
Our nine month journey to horizontally shard Figma’s Postgres stack, and the key to unlocking (nearly) infinite scalability.
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Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode
Learn about our new interface, and how we're making Figma better for developers
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Figma files for proposed IPO
An update on Figma's path to becoming a publicly traded company: our S-1 is now public.
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Figma will IPO on July 31
Tomorrow, July 31, 2025, Figma plans to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “FIG.”
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How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months
Migrating onto Kubernetes can take years. Here’s why we decided it was worth undertaking, and how we moved a majority of our core services.
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Keeping Figma Fast: perf-testing the WASM editor
When a laptop crashed in an empty office, we knew it was time to overhaul our performance testing framework.
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How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works
A peek into the homegrown solution we built as the first design tool with live collaborative editing.
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Figma’s Journey to TypeScript
Figma's team recently converted one of its codebases from a custom programming language to TypeScript without disrupting a single day of development.
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When Fonts Fall
A deep-dive into font fallback
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Figma AI
We’re introducing a suite of AI-powered features to help you push past creative blocks and bring your best ideas to life.
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Server-side sandboxing: Containers and seccomp
An overview of containers and seccomp as sandboxing primitives
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How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be
How the new open source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be
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The growing pains of database architecture
How the Figma infrastructure team reduced potential instability by scaling to multiple databases
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A case study on strict null checks
A look at how we identify and address bugs
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Speeding up C++ build times
How we cut build times by 50% and shipped a solution for scale.
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How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (2019)
The story of its last-minute pivot and epic comeback.
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Figma: The product design team’s process
A look at the meetings, rituals, and exercises our product design team relies on to stay connected and efficient.
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We're training a Figma-fluent editing model
Here, we’re sharing the research behind how we’re translating that to design editing workflows.
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An Update on Plugin Security
Learn about Figma's response to the security vulnerabilities that were reported in a 3rd-party library that we use for plugin security
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Figma makes 200 fixes and improvements to Dev Mode
After two months of open beta, we’ve shipped more than 200 of the most-wanted updates to our Dev Mode workspace.
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How we engineer feedback at Figma with eng crits
A behind the scenes look at engineering crits at Figma.
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What codegen is good for
Codegen isn't a replacement, but an extension of your programming. In this post, we share recommendations for using codegen to augment your workflows.
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Rust in Production (2018)
How Mozilla’s new language dramatically improved our server-side performance
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Building a professional design tool on the web
Our vision for the future of design tools is one where both the tool and the content are easily available to anyone, anywhere.
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Figma is powered by WebAssembly
Because our product is written in C++, which can easily be compiled into WebAssembly, Figma is a perfect demonstration of this new format’s power.