Figma Expands Make With Production Code Editing

Figma has expanded its AI-powered Make platform with new capabilities that allow users to edit production codebases directly from within Figma, signaling the company's ambition to blur the line between design tools and software development environments.

The new features, available in Figma's beta desktop application, enable designers and developers to make visual changes to production code, create and manage Git branches, review commit histories, and collaborate on code without switching to traditional development tools.

The launch reflects a broader industry trend toward AI-assisted software development, where code generation and modification are increasingly becoming accessible to non-developers.

Figma said users can now connect Make directly to production code repositories and visually edit interfaces while the platform automatically identifies and modifies the underlying code. Changes to layouts, fonts, colors, sizing, and other UI elements are translated into production-ready code without requiring users to work directly in an integrated development environment (IDE).

For more complex modifications such as animations and interactions, users can annotate elements and describe desired behavior, allowing AI agents to interpret the context and make corresponding code changes.

The company is also introducing native support for software development workflows. Users can create branches, generate local commits, revert changes, and prepare pull requests directly from Make before handing work over to engineering teams for review.

Rather than replacing established development processes, Figma said the goal is to integrate with existing Git-based workflows so engineering teams retain control over production deployments.

The company is also extending collaboration capabilities between design and development teams. Screens, pages, and components created in Make can be copied into Figma's design canvas, where teams can review, modify, and iterate on them collaboratively before synchronizing those changes back into code.

The announcement highlights Figma's growing focus on AI-assisted product development beyond its traditional design roots.

As AI coding tools become more capable, technology vendors are increasingly competing to define the next generation of software creation platforms. While developers have traditionally relied on IDEs and terminals, Figma is betting that a significant portion of software creation and modification can happen through visual interfaces augmented by AI.

The move also positions Figma more directly against a growing ecosystem of AI coding platforms and agentic development tools that aim to simplify software creation for both technical and non-technical users.

For enterprises, the significance lies in potentially reducing friction between design and engineering teams. By allowing visual design changes to flow directly into production code and enabling code-based prototypes to move back into collaborative design environments, Figma is attempting to create a unified workflow that spans design, prototyping, development, and deployment.

The launch underscores how AI is reshaping software development workflows, with vendors increasingly positioning agents not just as coding assistants but as collaborative participants capable of translating design intent into production-ready applications.