Config 2026 - AI blurs the lines as Figma brings code, motion and agent workflows into its design canvas

For the entire history of computing, enterprise applications have forced us into functional silos to get things done. Book a vacation? Log into your HCM app. Create a document? Go to your word processor. Write some code? Fire up your code editor. Today, that's no longer true, thanks to a combination of increasingly sophisticated browser technologies and the leveling effect of AI. There was a powerful demonstration of this trend during the keynote at last week's annual Config conference, when digital design vendor Figma unveiled the ability to work with code from within its flagship design canvas. Loredana Crisan, Figma's Chief Design Officer, puts this capability into context:

We're calling this Code Layers, and for the first time, basically, design and code can live in one space, side-by-side. You can generate code from a design, you can prompt for it directly with agents, and you can import it from...

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