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9 stories from figma.com have been shared on Kiwi News since 27 June 2023, with 19 upvotes and 0 comments in total. The latest was shared on 1 July 2025. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- Figma Files Registration Statement for Proposed IPO
Figma, Inc. announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock. The company has applied to list the shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "FIG." The number of shares and the price range have not yet been determined, and the offering is subject to market conditions. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Allen & Company LLC, and J.P. Morgan are joint lead book-running managers for the offering.
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- Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger
Figma and Adobe have jointly decided to end their pending acquisition, as they no longer see a path to regulatory approval after 15 months of review. The companies say they spent thousands of hours with regulators worldwide detailing differences between their businesses, products and markets. Figma CEO Dylan Field says the company will continue as an independent company and focus on making it easy for anyone to design and build digital products on a single multiplayer canvas. Over the period, Figma shipped Dev Mode, Variables, Advanced Prototyping and its first native AI features, opened hubs in the UK and Asia, and acquired AI startup Diagram.
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- 10 rules for play - from designer Paula Scher
Paula Scher, a Pentagram partner and longtime graphic designer, shares ten rules for reaching a "state of play" in creative work, which she describes as freely associating and seeing new combinations in old ideas. Her suggestions include clearing the mind with mindless tasks after meeting a client, browsing design history books in one sitting without copying anything, and working in distracting environments like waiting rooms or flights. She also recommends taking pro-bono projects, since play opportunities are rare, and avoiding mood boards, which she says produce work only slightly different from what already exists. She notes she has worked with the New York Public Theater for 29 seasons.
- Figma’s new AI capabilities will 10x designers
Figma has acquired Diagram, the AI design startup founded by Jordan Singer, who previously built "Designer," a Figma plugin that used GPT-3 to generate design ideas from a prompt. The article says Figma has been focused on AI for some time, has built a machine learning team, and has seen its community build nearly 100 AI-powered plugins using its open API. It outlines plans to use AI across discovery, design and development, and says AI will lower the floor and raise the ceiling for design work.
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- Tap into shortcuts with a new custom keyboard from Figma x Work Louder
Figma and Work Louder, a Montréal-based maker of modular keyboards, have built a customized Creator Micro keyboard that lets designers navigate the Figma canvas more tactilely. Figma Product Manager Rob Bye developed the keyboard with the Work Louder team, and it has 12 keys and two rotary encoders that allow for 48 different shortcuts, while Figma has over 150 possible shortcuts. Michael di Genova, Co-founder at Work Louder, says the grid layout makes custom shortcut placement easy to map mentally, and the physical feedback helps users build muscle memory.
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