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Barely more than a week has gone by since Figma’s first APAC conference took place, and the post-adrenaline is still kicking in.
For many Asians and people living halfway around the globe, having the leader of digital design come closer to us have been delightful. I was no exception, because despite repeating the same product releases in Config 2024, the key points only reinforces what I knew about a week before.
Here are the three big announcements in a few words: UI redesign, Figma AI, and Figma Slides (or Flides). Compared to last year’s release of the Dev Mode, which I had written about before, this year’s release was more tactical and expected.
Yes, Figma is indeed getting more complex with the addition of new enhancements happening every month; thus, the call for a simpler UI is almost necessary since the last time it did an overhaul was when the product was first released.
And yes, despite Figma being late in the slides game with PowerPoint, Google slides and Canva dominating the market, it only made sense to create a revenue model out of this if most Figma users are already creating Figma presentation slides, with lots of pain. After all, if 3.5 million slide decks were…