New capabilities coming to Figma Make
Summary
Figma Make now lets designers edit code directly in the design tool without leaving the interface, enabling non-engineers to ship production changes through normal PR workflows. This bridges the designer-developer gap by preserving existing CI/CD processes while giving designers agency to iterate on their actual product.
Key Takeaways
- Direct code editing in Figma panels eliminates the designer pain of tiny AI prompts—select elements, change layouts, alter text and fonts without leaving the design tool.
- Annotations system with voice mode and linked frames lets designers add contextual feedback directly on rendered screens, batching all changes together for model processing.
- Designers can submit PRs through normal engineering workflows unchanged—preserving CI checks, review processes, and merge conflict resolution for full team integration.
- Make spins up local dev servers automatically, displaying actual product renders that designers can click through and modify before creating branches—matching user experience exactly.
- Feature rolling out gradually starting today for desktop app users already shipping code to production, with broader access coming soon—sign up for waitlist to test on specific, high-priority problems.
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Hey, I'm Chase and I'm a product marketer here at Figma. >> And I'm L and I'm a product manager here at Figma working on Figma Make. Now you can open Make, connect your codebase, and Make handles all of the setup for you. It spins up a dev server in the background, previewing your actual app, and let you use it, and click through screens and states. It's the same experience your users are seeing. Since this is local development, you can just get in there and start working until you're ready to create a branch and submit a PR. It is a wild experience to see your actual product but be able to change it exactly the way that you want to. >> One of the biggest changes in Make is the ability to change code in a Figma editing panel. If you're designing with AI, you know the pain of prompting tiny…