From AI-driven workflows to web-based design tools, Figma is evolving fast. Explore how Make, Sites, Liquid Glass, and more are changing the game in 2025.
The design world hasn’t stopped buzzing since Config 2025, and for good reason. Figma has transformed from a collaborative design tool into something that feels more like magic—a complete product development platform that lets you design, build, and ship real applications without ever leaving the interface.
If you’ve been following Figma’s journey, you know they’ve always pushed boundaries. But these latest updates? They’re not just incremental improvements. They’re fundamental shifts that are redefining what it means to be a designer, developer, and creator in 2025.
What’s New in Figma – The Quick Overview
Over the past three months, Figma has rolled out five major features that bridge the gap between design and development: Figma Make for AI-powered app creation, Figma Sites for publishing real websites, Figma Buzz for content generation, Figma Draw for advanced illustrations, and Grid Layout for sophisticated responsive design. Plus, they’ve added code integration, liquid glass effects, backend connectivity, and enterprise-grade governance features.
The Big Five from Config 2025 (May Updates)
Figma Make: Your AI-Powered Development Partner
Remember when turning a design into a functioning app required hours of handoff meetings and countless back-and-forth revisions? Figma Make changes everything. This AI-powered feature transforms natural language prompts into fully functional applications.
Type “Create a task management app with drag-and-drop functionality,” and watch as Figma generates not just the interface, but the underlying logic and interactions. It’s like having a senior developer sitting next to you, translating your creative vision into working code in real-time.
Figma Sites: From Design File to Live Website in Minutes
Figma Sites eliminates the traditional design-to-development handoff entirely. Your Figma designs become real websites with proper HTML, CSS, and responsive behaviour—no coding required. This isn’t just a preview or prototype; these are production-ready sites that you can publish to custom domains.
For agencies and freelancers, this means faster client delivery and fewer revision cycles. For startups, it means getting to market without a development team.
Figma Buzz: AI Content That Fits Your Brand
Creating on-brand content at scale has always been a challenge. Figma Buzz solves this by analysing your existing designs and generating new content that matches your visual style, tone, and brand guidelines. Whether you need social media posts, blog headers, or marketing materials, Buzz understands your brand DNA and creates accordingly.
Figma Draw: Professional Illustration Meets Collaborative Design
Figma Draw brings advanced illustration capabilities directly into your design workflow. Think Adobe Illustrator’s power with Figma’s collaborative features. Custom brushes, advanced path editing, and vector manipulation tools mean illustrators no longer need to jump between applications.
Grid Layout: Responsive Design That Actually Works
The new Grid Layout system goes beyond traditional auto-layout, offering true 2D grid control that adapts intelligently across screen sizes. It’s a responsive design that works the way designers think—visually and intuitively, without wrestling with complex CSS grid properties.
June & July Highlights: Power Features
Code Layers: When Design Meets Development
June brought Code Layers to Figma Sites, allowing developers to inject custom JavaScript and advanced interactions directly into design files. This hybrid approach means designers maintain creative control whilst developers add the complex functionality that makes applications truly powerful.
Liquid Glass Native Support: Riding the UI Trend Wave
Apple’s liquid glass aesthetic has dominated 2025 design trends, and Figma now supports these effects natively. Liquid Glass Native Support includes built-in frosted glass effects, dynamic blur systems, and transparency controls that automatically generate the CSS needed for web implementation.
Make + Supabase Integration: Real Backend Power
The Make + Supabase integration connects Figma-built applications to real databases and authentication systems. Your prototypes can now handle user registration, data storage, and complex business logic—turning concepts into fully functional SaaS applications.
Apex & Custom Domains: Professional Publishing
Apex and Custom Domains support means your Figma Sites can live on your own branded URLs with enterprise-grade hosting. No more sharing figma.com links with clients—your designs live on your domain with SSL certificates and proper SEO optimisation.
Governance Features: Enterprise Security
New export controls and governance features address enterprise security concerns, allowing organisations to control who can publish sites, integrate with external services, or export sensitive design assets.
Why These Updates Matter
These aren’t just shiny new features—they represent a fundamental shift in how digital products get built. Traditional workflows involved multiple tools, countless handoffs, and significant technical barriers between creative vision and final product. Figma is eliminating those barriers.
For design teams, this means faster iteration and less time spent on tedious handoff documentation. For businesses, it means shorter time-to-market and reduced development costs. For individual creators, it means the ability to build and launch ideas without needing a technical co-founder.
Figma has evolved from a design tool into a complete product development platform. You can now conceptualise, design, prototype, build, and deploy digital products entirely within one ecosystem.
How Figma Stacks Up Against the Competition
Whilst tools like Webflow excel at website building and Framer focuses on interactive prototyping, Figma’s approach is uniquely comprehensive. Unlike Locofy or other design-to-code tools that create messy output requiring developer cleanup, Figma generates clean, maintainable code that developers want to work with.
The key advantage? Figma hasn’t abandoned its design roots. These development features enhance the design process rather than replacing it, maintaining the collaborative, design-first approach that made Figma popular whilst adding serious development capabilities.
Design, Build, Ship — All in Figma
The updates from May to July 2025 mark a turning point for Figma and the broader design industry. We’re witnessing the emergence of a truly unified design-development platform that respects both creative vision and technical requirements.
Whether you’re a solo designer looking to bring your ideas to life, a startup team trying to move fast, or an enterprise organisation seeking better design-development collaboration, these new Figma capabilities offer unprecedented possibilities.
Ready to explore these features? Start with Figma Make if you’re interested in AI-powered development, or dive into Figma Sites if you want to see your designs become real websites. The future of design-development collaboration is here—and it’s more exciting than we imagined.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q1: Do I need coding knowledge to use Figma Make and Figma Sites?
No! Figma Make works with plain English prompts, and Figma Sites automatically converts designs into websites. Code knowledge is optional but helpful for advanced customisation via Code Layers.
Q2: Can Figma Sites handle complex websites, or just simple landing pages?
It’s quite robust. With Supabase integration, you can build full applications with databases and user authentication. However, extremely complex e-commerce sites may still need traditional development for certain features.
Q3: Will these features replace web developers?
No, they’re changing developers’ roles. Developers can focus on complex backend work whilst designers handle more frontend creation. It’s about collaboration, not replacement.
Q4: Are these features available on all Figma plans?
Basic features like Draw and Grid Layout are widely available, but advanced features like Make, custom domains, and enterprise governance require higher-tier subscriptions. Check Figma’s pricing for current details.
Q5: How does Figma Buzz match my brand guidelines?
It analyses your existing Figma files—colours, typography, visual patterns, and style guides. The more comprehensive your brand assets in Figma, the more accurate the generated content.
