Product Design

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Product Design

Figma's Generative Plugins Route Around the Trust System It Built

Figma's new prompt-built plugins let anyone spin up custom tools inside a design file, but they bypass the review process Figma spent years building to vet exactly that kind of software.

Product Design

Codex Turns Product Design Into a Plugin You Can Install by Lunchtime

OpenAI's new Codex plugins let a coding agent 'approximate' product design alongside sales and investment banking, compressing the discipline's messiest phase into a same-day install.

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The Blurring Job Description: What 900 Designers Say AI Is Doing to Their Work

A survey of 900+ designers reads as a productivity story, but its numbers point to a quieter problem: shared workflows fracturing into solo ones, unmatched by how teams evaluate or pay people.

Product Design

Figma's Code Layers and the Vanishing Line Between Prototype and Product

Figma's code layers turn running code into a canvas material designers can reshape. The convenience is real — but so is the question of who owns code quality once it's one click from production.