A universal design across platforms brings more focus to content and a new level of vitality while maintaining the familiarity of Apple’s software

User experience isn’t just a function of clever layout or seamless animation. The most impactful products aren’t merely well designed — they’re deeply felt. Behind every successful user experience is a beating heart of empathy.

Has this ever happened to you? After weeks of careful user research – planning sessions, interviews, observations, analysis – you present your findings to the team. Instead of excitement or curiosity, you get… indifference. A stakeholder shrugs: “Yeah, we already knew this.” Another adds, “These insights are pretty obvious.”

We’ve all encountered them—the designers who swear by Figma like it’s the holy grail of design tools. You know the ones.

This comprehensive guide will walk you through the process of hiring top AI developers for next-gen conversational AI solutions, covering everything from understanding your requirements to evaluating candidates and making the right choice for your business.

This way of working takes some time to get used to and isn’t always a fit for everyone, but the beauty is that there is no one right way to freelance. You get to decide, based on your experience and interests, what projects or assignments you want to take on and what you don’t.

Stacks are a new way to build flexible, adaptable layouts in Sketch. From buttons to complex UI, they’ll have a huge impact on how you work in Sketch. In this post, design lead Chris Downer shows us what they are — and why they matter.

As an experiment and way to learn what AI is capable of, I decided I’d co-redesign this portfolio with AI tools by my side. The biggest barrier before was always getting started; this site was built with Bootstrap 3, Jekyll, and a pretty old-school build pipeline almost 10 years ago now. I could barely remember how it worked, let alone think about how to modernize it without starting from scratch.

At Config 2025, Figma rolled out many exciting updates, including a brand-new layout grid. At first glance, it might seem like just another way to organise your designs, but there’s more to it.

Today we’re announcing the beta release of the Dev Mode MCP server, which brings Figma directly into the developer workflow to help LLMs achieve design-informed code generation.