Figma | News, Hiring, Layoffs, Competitors, CEO, Fundraising Insights
Figma is a leading collaborative design tool based in San Francisco, California, that enables teams to design, prototype, and gather...
Figma is a leading collaborative design tool based in San Francisco, California, that enables teams to design, prototype, and gather feedback on products in a single platform. It aims to make design accessible to everyone and offers a suite of products including Figma Design, FigJam, and Figma Slides, facilitating collaboration among designers, developers, and product managers.
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Headquarters
San Francisco, California
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1001-5000 employees
Industry
Design Services
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🛍️ Figma Product and Pricing News
- Figma released a Code Connect update expanding web framework support to include design systems in Angular, Vue, and HTML.
- Figma announced the availability of spring animations on LottieFiles with presets like Gentle, Quick, and Bouncy, or the option to customize.
- Miggi from Figgi showcased a new duplicate and rotate feature in Figma with an analog clock face tutorial.
- Figma introduced interactive components that allow users to reuse consistent animations across designs by setting an after delay trigger.
- Figma introduced the ability to create a Figma Slides outline from a FigJam board using AI.
- Figma launched its first plugin called Spring for faster animation on September 27.
- Figma now supports automatic generation of component variants with the new version of CVA.
- Figma released a VS Code extension that allows developers to access and inspect designs directly within the editor.
👔 Figma CEO, Management and Leadership Team
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Chief Operation Officer & Board of Director Red & White Education PVT. LTD.[email protected]
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Founder & CEO Memorisely · Educator Advisory Board Figma • Making UX/UI Education Accessible[email protected]
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CEO & Co-founder of Figma[email protected]
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💼 Figma Hiring and Layoffs
- Jordan Singer has left Figma as a Product Designer in the United States to become the Founder & CEO at Mainframe.
- Amman Yaqoob Bhatti has left Figma, where he served as Owner in Pakistan, to become Chief Executive Officer at Blizon after previously holding the position of Owner at Six Sense Works.
- Figma has added new roles including Equity Operations Manager, Design Program Manager, Systems, AI Researcher - PhD Intern (2025), and Director, Sales - LATAM.
- Figma is currently hiring a Compensation Partner in the United States.
- Kristina Sands left Figma as Director of Communications in the San Francisco Bay Area to join Udemy as Director of Internal Communications.
- Figma is currently hiring for the position of Director, Internal Audit in the United States.
- Vu Manh has started a role as Team Lead Manager at Figma.
- Blake Weeks has joined Figma as a Senior Enterprise Account Executive from BrowserStack, where he held the position of Sr. Enterprise Account Executive.
🤖 Figma Developer, Integration and Automation News
- Figma has partnered with Microsoft Education to offer free access to Figma and FigJam enterprise tiers for all K-12 educators and students within Microsoft schools.
- Figma is being used by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance to develop their design system Cuna, allowing real-time design feedback and collaboration across business and system departments.
- Figma is being used by top Indian brands like Fynd, Zomato, Swiggy, CRED, and Groww to enhance collaboration, streamline workflows, and drive innovation in their design processes.
- Philips is using Figma to enhance its digital transformation by speeding up its design process tenfold and reducing UX layer costs by 25%.
- Figma's Production Engineering team, led by Software Engineer Scott Laird, improved search performance by migrating from ElasticSearch to OpenSearch, reducing latency by 60%, increasing load capacity by 50%, and halving costs.
- Figma is being used to create and maintain a component design system for vanta.com, ensuring design consistency with Webflow development.
- Figma is being used for UX design and prototyping at sweetgreen.
- Peloton Game Studio is using Figma to create wireframes and prototypes for their new fitness game.
📈 Figma Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News
- Adobe acquired Figma for $20 billion, which is expected to accelerate Figma's growth and potentially lead to changes in Adobe XD's focus.
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