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Figma’s new app lets you combine multiple AI models and editing tools

Figma’s new app lets you combine multiple AI models and editing tools

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Figma has acquired Weavy, a creative platform that allows users to link AI models and editing tools together, and use them simultaneously in a single canvas. The platform will now live under its new parent company as “Figma Weave,” according to Figma’s announcement, adding an image and video editing tool to Figma’s growing design ecosystem. Weavy uses a node-based approach to give creators more control when making AI-generated content. Instead of repeatedly using prompts in a single AI app, users can make branches that add multiple steps to the process, instructing the platform to edit a project using multiple tools without jumping to another app, or feed a single set of instructions into multiple AI models simultaneously to compare the best results. “We see AI outputs as a new medium to mold, and we believe the combination of human craft alongside AI generation unlocks more expression and a bolder point of view,” Figma said in the announcement. “If you want to stand out, you have to push beyond the prompt to get to something great.” …

Figma’s CEO on his new approach to AI

Figma’s CEO on his new approach to AI

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Tech event season is in full swing. This week, Stripe and Figma gathered thousands of people in downtown San Francisco for their respective conferences. I caught up with Figma CEO Dylan Field after his opening keynote at Config, where he announced the most significant product expansion in the company’s history. Below, you’ll find our chat about how he sees AI fitting into Figma after a rough start to integrating the technology last year, the new areas he’s targeting to grow the platform, and more. And keep reading for how Meta is turning up the heat on its AI team, my thoughts about this week’s OpenAI news, and more… “Design and craft are the differentiator” These days, it seems like Figma has the entire creative software industry in its sights. On Wednesday, CEO Dylan Field walked onstage in front of about 8,000 people at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to announce four new products: a ChatGPT-like prototyping tool, a website builder and hosting platform, an AI-branded ad tool that’s similar to Canva, and an Adobe …

Figma’s big AI update takes on Adobe, WordPress, and Canva

Figma’s big AI update takes on Adobe, WordPress, and Canva

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Figma is expanding its creative software ecosystem to allow product designers to complete entire projects without jumping to third-party apps. Four new products for website building, AI coding, branded marketing, and digital illustration were introduced at Figma’s Config event today, aiming to fill in any gaps holding Figma back from being an all-in-one platform that supports the entire product design lifecycle. For example, while existing products like Figma Design, Slides, and FigJam could be used to ideate and create prototypes, developers would need to use services like WordPress to create live websites or Adobe Illustrator to create customized and scalable brand imagery. Figma’s first solution is Figma Sites, a website builder that integrates with Figma Design and allows creators to turn their projects into live, functional sites. Figma Sites provides presets for layouts, blocks, templates, and interactions that aim to make building websites less complex and time-consuming. Additional components like custom animations can also be added either using existing code or by prompting Site’s AI tool to generate new interaction codes via text descriptions, such …

Cyberpunk is out and solarpunk is in, according to Figma’s CEO

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Cyberpunk design has been all the rage for several years now — this very website was once awash in neon colors and hard edges, you might recall — but Figma CEO Dylan Field says he sees glimmers of optimism taking over. “I think that we were really futurist, really cyberpunk for a while,” the founder of the popular design tool company told the crowd at a live taping of Decoder at SXSW when asked to compare the Cybertruck with the just-announced Rivian R3. “A lot of neon lines, a lot of hard edges, a lot of poly or low-poly sort of metaphors. And it feels like we’re going more humanist. It feels like we’re going maybe more solarpunk.” Cyberpunk.Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Solarpunk has been around for a few years now — long enough that the conservative American Enterprise Institute wrote an entire blog post about how it’s a dangerous liberal fantasy somehow tied to AOC! — and it usually looks like Tears of the Kingdom fan art. Think abundant energy, organic …