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Speeding up C++ build times

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If you’ve worked with C++ projects, you’re probably all too familiar with the perennial issue of...

If you’ve worked with C++ projects, you’re probably all too familiar with the perennial issue of slow build times. They are a major productivity killer, leaving developers stuck in a frustrating cycle of wait, debug, and rebuild. In 2023, build times at Figma were increasing at a disproportionate rate: While the cod...

Show HN: Figr Identity – Generate Design Systems in Figma Instantly

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How Figma's Databases Team Lived to Tell the Scale | Figma Blog

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How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale I’m honst everytime I get into Figma,...

How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale I’m honst everytime I get into Figma, I’m frustrated and think how everyone using them? The UI is so clunky, I always have to make sure I don’t accidently move something. But anyway, they operate at massive scale and today they share the story they migrate and shard their database.

How We Built a Custom Permissions DSL at Figma | Figma Blog

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How Figma Built a Custom Permissions DSL — Figma has a complex permissions setup, the implementation...

How Figma Built a Custom Permissions DSL — Figma has a complex permissions setup, the implementation of which was causing tech debt, bugs, and delays. After not finding any open source answers, they built a DSL that isolated policies and data while also being cross-platform (Ruby and TypeScript.)

Figma removed `window.figma` on view-only pages today

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Let’s start with some background. Our team of designers began using Figma for design and delivery...

Let’s start with some background. Our team of designers began using Figma for design and delivery last year, for which we have purchased over 200 enterprise seats. Initially, the delivery process was quite pleasant, up until Figma started charging for Dev Mode. Before the existence of Dev Mode, engineers using the I...

How we engineer feedback at Figma with eng crits

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At Figma, we’re encouraged to give and get feedback on in-progress work—the earlier the better. This...

At Figma, we’re encouraged to give and get feedback on in-progress work—the earlier the better. This is especially true on the engineering team. But sharing early work can be daunting. It requires an environment and culture in which individual contributors feel comfortable bringing unpolished ideas to the table to a...

What's next for Dev Mode: annotations, compare changes, plugins, and more

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Watch Figma CTO Kris Rasmussen's talk at Config 2023.From the moment we asked, “How can a...

Watch Figma CTO Kris Rasmussen's talk at Config 2023.From the moment we asked, “How can a design tool work better for developers?”, we’ve heard from our growing community of Dev Mode users about what front-end developers and design systems engineers really need from Figma. Since launching in free beta last June, we’...

Peter Yang's 10 rules for making products that customers love

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Whatever your social media platforms are, there’s a fair chance that Peter Yang has built a...

Whatever your social media platforms are, there’s a fair chance that Peter Yang has built a product for them. His career stretches back over a decade, starting with an early career pivot from product marketing into product management during a three-year stint at Meta. He went on to build products at platforms such a...

How Mozilla’s Rust dramatically improved our server-side performance

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