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Introducing Specs: Markdown as a medium

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By Luke Zhang, Aosheng Ran, Johnny Dallas
| Figma Blog | Shortcut
Turn existing Markdown into a spec by dragging and dropping any .md file onto the canvas. Today, more and more product builders are working in Markdown, as collaborating with agents becomes more standard. It’s the de facto format for sharing context. But for all the context Markdown helps us express, it’s missing a lot of context, too. Markdown files tend to be single player on local computers, with brittle relationships to each other, and little tying them to the projects that spawned them.
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Build by design: New workflows for new ways of building

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By Sean Blanton, Luke Zhang, Johnny Dallas
| figma.bot
For a long time, coding was expensive. Every change would cost money and time, and you planned carefully before you committed anything to code. Today, as AI has made coding cheap, building something has never been easier. More teams are building as a way to expand their thinking. They’re building first, using it as a jumping off point to untangle a problem and test whether ideas hold up.
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Design together with code layers on the canvas

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By Dylan Field, Luke Zhang, Johnny Dallas
| figma.bot
Designing with code lets you see how an experience feels and behaves, from micro interactions to complete flows. But when everyone is working separately in their own coding tools, it can feel like you’re designing in isolation, making it harder to share work or compare alternatives. That’s why we introduced code layers earlier this year With code layers in Figma Design, you can explore multiple directions with code, side by side with your team. , bringing code onto the shared Figma canvas.
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