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Figma integriert Tools zur KI-Bildbearbeitung
Figma erweitert seine Designplattform um KI-Tools zur Bildbearbeitung. Sie isolieren und retuschieren Motive oder erweitern den Hintergrund direkt im Layout.
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Figma reports Q3 revenue up 38% YoY to $274.2M, vs. $265.2M est., adjusted operating margin of 12%, vs. 6.5% est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/figma-fig-q3-earnings-report-2025.html

Figma delivers strong forecast as AI draws in more customers
People are signing up for Figma to use its Make tool for generating app designs with artificial intelligence, CEO Dylan Figma said.

from my link log —
Desperately seeking squircles.
https://www.figma.com/blog/desperately-seeking-squircles/
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Desperately seeking squircles | Figma Blog
In a famous 1972 interview, Charles Eames answered a short sequence of fundamental questions about the nature of design.

2016: Figma auto-saves your work.
2026: Figma auto-steals your work.
Figma admins, take a look at the setting that Figma silently opted your entire team into, and think about whether the labor of your designers should be handed away for free, just so Figma can turn around and pitch AI powered layout creation to product managers.

Cursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cursor-launches-pro-design-tools-figma/

Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool For Designers
The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market.

RE: https://masto.hackers.town/@rgegriff/115555220750043172
As someone who hates seeing Acrobat commercials I'm so excited.
But I would use Krita or some other tool before Adobe. In web world figma has full ownership.

Designers are always inventing new titles. Web designer, UI designer, UX designer, UX/UI designer, Product designer, UX/AI designer (???)
These are all the same!
As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist.
Fighting with PMs over who "gets" to do strategy (usually: neither of you) won't help you. Lean into the core #design

Without UX governance, your app turns to "sludge"
Break out of the feature delivery mindset and attend to the architecture and maintenance of the product.

A profile of VC firm Index Ventures, which saw billions in gains from exits in 2025, including Figma, Scale AI, and Dream Games, as it looks ahead to succession (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-08/inde…