Emil Sjölander

Designing the Future of Human<>Agent Collaboration

What if you could test a hundred times more ideas before writing production code? AI agents are making it possible.

Designing the Future of Human<>Agent Collaboration
#1about 4 minutes

Figma's evolution into a product development platform

Figma has grown from a design tool to a full platform where developers are a primary audience, closing the loop from idea to shipped product.

#2about 2 minutes

The core beliefs behind building great products

The best products are built through extensive iteration and by collaborative teams that include diverse roles from the very beginning.

#3about 2 minutes

Understanding AI agents as collaborative assistants

AI agents should be viewed as active collaborators and assistants that augment human skills like critical thinking, not as replacements for team members.

#4about 5 minutes

Using AI for rapid ideation with Figma Make

Figma Make allows teams to go from a simple prompt to a functional, code-backed prototype, enabling the exploration of hundreds of ideas quickly.

#5about 8 minutes

Bridging prototypes and production with Figma MCP

The Figma MCP server provides design intent and context to AI coding assistants, enabling them to generate production-ready code that uses your existing codebase's abstractions.

#6about 2 minutes

How the MCP server provides context to LLMs

The MCP server feeds LLMs crucial context including design system patterns, component references, image data, and pseudo-code to generate accurate UI.

#7about 3 minutes

A walkthrough of the design-to-code workflow

A demonstration shows how to copy a link from a Figma selection and use it within an AI-powered IDE like Cursor to implement the design directly into the codebase.

#8about 3 minutes

The developer's evolving role in the age of AI

AI tools shift the developer's role from pure implementation to problem-solving and orchestrating agents, using the time saved to iterate more and build better products.

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Figma's strategy for integrating AI features
03:11 MIN

Figma's strategy for integrating AI features

Fireside Chat with Kris Rasmussen, CTO at Figma

Empowering design teams with AI-driven capabilities
03:53 MIN

Empowering design teams with AI-driven capabilities

Insight into AI-Driven Design

Automating frontend development from Figma designs
03:31 MIN

Automating frontend development from Figma designs

The Alpha‑Developer of Tomorrow: Building the Future of the Software Development Lifecycle

Demo of an AI agent converting Figma to code
01:28 MIN

Demo of an AI agent converting Figma to code

MCP Mashups: How AI Agents are Reviving the Programmable Web

The future of AI as a colleague in the workplace
07:42 MIN

The future of AI as a colleague in the workplace

Leading efficiency, empathy, and the human experience with AI

The future of developer tools in an AI-driven world
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The future of developer tools in an AI-driven world

Are frameworks like React redundant in an AI world?

Defining AI agents as collaborative teammates
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Defining AI agents as collaborative teammates

Reimagining the Developer Experience: The AI Advantage

Envisioning hybrid teams and 90% AI-written code
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