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The AI features Figma has rolled out since Config 2024 are changing how product design teams work. A look at what each feature delivers, what remains human work, and which habits are taking hold across teams.
Figma Dev Mode is the developer-facing view inside a Figma file: it generates ready CSS, exposes exact measurements, maps variables to tokens, and, with Code Connect, links each component to the real codebase snippet. It solves most of the design-to-code handoff friction, but it does not replace human judgment on accessibility, performance, or responsive behavior.
How Figma went from being one more design tool to becoming the shared language between design, product and engineering, and what that shift changes about the way a product team actually works from the first sketch through to handoff.
