@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic now uses Canva's MCP server, letting Canva users manage designs via Claude's UI, following similar integrations with Figma, Notion, Stripe, and Prisma (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/706637/canva-anthropic-claude-ai-mcp-s…
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialIt was unavoidable that this week I'd end up writing about Apple's latest blunder. But in the context of Figma's Sites bullshit and Shopify recasting designers as "artists" it's even worse than one OS making a stupid decision.
The mission of #UXdesign is being changed: orienting away from making useful products that work for everyone, and towards branding.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialFigma releases Dev Mode Model Context Protocol server, which provides more context about how AI designs are created in Figma (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/679439/figma-dev-mode-mcp-server-beta-release
@almad@fosstodon.orgSalesforce and Figma blocking integrations is a good reminder that evem if you pay, your data is the product and it isn’t really yours.
@frankel@mastodon.top#Figma's $300,000 Daily #AWS Bill Highlights Cloud Dependency Risks
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/07/figma-a…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Figma CEO Dylan Field, a former Thiel fellow whose Figma stake is worth ~$6.6B after the company ended its NYSE debut week with a $71B market cap (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/03/figma-ceo-dylan-fields-path…
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social“I do not design with Figma. He who designs with Figma has forgotten the face of his father. I design with my eye.
I do not code with an IDE. He who codes with his IDE has forgotten the face of his father. I code with my mind.
I do not push to staging. He who pushes to staging has forgotten the face of his father. I push to prod.”
--The Gunslinger, if Stephen King was full stack
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialFigma's stock closes up 250% at $115.50, after Figma sold shares at $33 in its IPO, hitting a ~$68B valuation; Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition fell apart in 2023 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/figma-fig-starts-trading-on-nyse-after-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Marin Community Foundation sold 13.4M Figma shares for $440M in the IPO; source: the foundation had received the shares from Figma co-founder Evan Wallace (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/02/figma-ipo-surpris…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFigma files for an IPO, plans to trade on the NYSE under FIG, and reports Q1 revenue increased 46% YoY to $228.2M and net income grew from $13.5M to $44.9M YoY (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/figma-fig-files-for-ipo-as-tec…
@matthiasott@mastodon.socialJust bought a lifetime license for Atmos because it is just sooo good for creating perceptually uniform color palettes – including a shade generator, a contrast checker, OKLCH support, CSS export, a Figma plugin, online sharing, and, and… 😍 👉 https://atmos.style
(No affiliation, just genuine excitement! 😁)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFigma priced its US IPO at $33 per share, above its expected range of $30 to $32, raising $1.2B in the offering and valuing the company at $19.3B (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/figma-prices-ipo-at-33-above-expected-range.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFigma opens at $85 on the NYSE, after selling shares at $33 in its IPO, hitting a ~$50B valuation, more than a year after Adobe's $20B failed acquisition (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/figma-fig-starts-trading-on-nyse-after-ipo.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLina Khan cites Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny, saying letting startups grow independently, rather than be acquired, can generate "enormous value" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/02/lina-khan-point…
@bert@recurse.socialwho's gonna make the figma of spreadsheets?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFigma's stock dropped 27.4% to $88.60 on Monday after last week's IPO pop; its fully diluted valuation now sits at ~$56B, still almost triple Adobe's 2022 offer (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/04/figmas-stock-sinks-after-la…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFigma makes its prompt-to-app coding tool Figma Make available to all users, after initially launching it in beta for Full Seat users earlier in 2025 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/712995/figma-make-ai-general-availability-annou…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIndex Ventures is set to receive $11B in proceeds after Figma's IPO, Google's Wiz acquisition, and Meta's investment in Scale AI, which paid out shareholders (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/figm
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Figma considered a higher IPO price, but its CEO wanted to bring on board certain long-term institutional shareholders and signed off on $33 per share (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Figma's IPO, which could raise as much as $1.2B after Figma raised its range to $30 to $32 per share on July 28, is approaching 40 times oversubscribed (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCB Insights: Figma's IPO was the largest venture-backed IPO by market capitalization for a US tech company since Rivian's debut in November 2021 (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fig…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Index Ventures' nearly $100M investment in Figma was worth $2.17B at the initial IPO price, while Greylock's $50M investment was worth $2.03B (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFigma prices its shares at $25 and $28 each and plans to sell nearly 37M shares to raise up to $1.03B, giving it an up to $16.4B valuation in its NYSE debut (Niket Nishant/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/figma-aims-137-billion…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmbrook, a startup providing specialized accounting software for US farmers and ranchers, raised a $26.1M Series A led by Thrive Capital and Figma's Dylan Field (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/0…
