Config 2024: a guide for admins
Config is Figma’s annual design conference for people who build products. We bring the Community together for two days of exciting feature launches and talks from industry professionals.
We announced a number of new features this year! As an admin, you might have questions about how these features relate to your organization, who can get access to certain beta features, and how to bring them into your organization. Learn more about our new features and what they mean for you.
Figma Slides open beta
Before you start
Who can use this feature
Figma Slides is in free beta.
Figma Slides is available to everyone, across all plans. As an admin, choose to opt your entire organization in or out of the Figma Slides.
We unveiled our newest product: Figma Slides, the first presentation tool built for designers and their teammates. Figma Slides pairs the design and collaboration power of Figma with presentation tools for storytelling and engagement.
Figma Slides FAQ
As an admin, can I disable Figma Slides for my team?
Figma admin can toggle off Figma Slides access for everyone in their team or organization in their admin dashboard.
To disable Figma Slides:
- From the file browser, click Admin in the left sidebar.
- Select the Settings tab.
- If Figma Slides is enabled, click the toggle to disable the setting.
When will the Figma Slides beta end and become generally available?
Figma Slides will be generally available in 2025. We'll notify you before it does.
Learn more about Figma Slides →
New AI tools across Figma limited beta
Before you start
Who can use this feature
AI tools across Figma Design are in a limited beta and available across all plans.
As an admin, choose to opt your entire team or organization in or out of using AI features. You can also choose to opt your team or organization out of content training settings.
Figma AI is currently free during the beta, but usage limits may apply. When these features are made generally available, there may be an added cost. You will receive advanced notice prior to any changes.
When it comes to building AI, we want to be transparent about what we’re doing and what it means for you. Learn more about Figma’s approach to AI →
With Figma AI, get started faster, find what you’re looking for, and stay in the flow. Make space for more creativity.
AI tools can be found across Figma Design, FigJam, and Figma Slides products.
Manage AI feature and content training settings
As an admin, you are in control of how your team or organization uses AI in Figma. AI settings are managed at a team level for Starter and Professional teams, or at an organization level for Organization and Enterprise plans.
- By default, Starter and Professional teams are automatically opted in to AI features and content training settings. Admins of teams can opt in or out of either of these settings at any time.
- By default, Organization and Enterprise plans are automatically opted in to AI features, but are automatically opted out of content training settings. Admins of teams or organizations can opt in or out of either of these settings at any time.
Learn how to control AI features and content training settings →
When the AI features toggle is off, users within that team or organization cannot access or use any AI features across Figma. When the AI features toggle is on, users can use AI features that they have access to. Learn more about who can use AI features, by product and plan →
Note: Prior to Config 2024, we had one setting that managed AI features called Figma and FigJam AI features. For any team and organizations who have this setting disabled as of June 26, 2024, Figma will honor the setting and turn off AI feature access and content training by default.
AI tools in Figma FAQ
As an admin, can I disable AI for my team?
Figma admins can toggle off AI feature access for everyone in their team or organization. Learn how ->
How much will AI tools in Figma cost?
Figma’s AI features are all currently free for users while in beta, but usage limits may apply. When these features are made generally available, there may be an added cost. You will receive advanced notice prior to any changes.
UI3: Figma, redesigned limited beta
Before you start
Who can use this feature
Figma's new UI is currently in a limited beta and available across all plans.
We’re rolling out UI3, the third redesign of the Figma interface since we launched in closed beta over a decade ago. Figma has grown more complex over time, and UI3 is an effort to simplify your design experience.
We’ve redesigned Figma for ease, ergonomics, and consistency across Figma products. We also wanted to introduce a structure that opens up Figma to accommodate new surfaces across the Figma platform, including capabilities like Figma AI and Figma Slides. Our intent is to make Figma Design feel more focused for designers and more approachable for a broad range of people.
How to support users in your team or organization with Figma’s new UI
We’re rolling out the redesign on a by-user basis, and want to support your users with the change. If users in your organization have questions about how to navigate Figma’s redesign or are wondering where certain settings have moved, feel free to share the Navigating Figma’s redesign article →
Tip: We’re actively updating our Help Center documentation to support users through this change. You’ll notice many articles will have a “old vs redesigned Figma” toggle to let you or your users view the documentation in either UI. If an article is missing in the redesigned Figma, check back soon!
UI3: Figma redesign FAQ
Will everyone in my organization get access to Figma’s new UI at the same time?
We are rolling out the redesign on a by-user basis, so we cannot enable or disable the new design for entire teams at this time. All Figma functionality will be available and work the same in both the old and new versions of Figma, so having different teammates using different versions should not impact day-to-day use of Figma.
Why is the Figma redesign sometimes called UI3?
You may have heard the Figma redesign being referred to as “UI3” since this is the third big iteration in Figma’s design evolution.
Learn more about Figma’s redesign →
A new view for Dev Mode
Before you start
Who can use this feature
Dev Mode is generally available.
As an admin, you can manage Dev Mode seats from the admin panel.
Requires a full Design seat or a Dev Mode seat.
To help teams ship better products efficiently, we’re evolving Figma to support the needs of both design and development. Designers maintain the freedom to explore ideas and iterate quickly, while developers have more clarity and guidance on what’s ready to build, what’s changed in a file, and how to build it.
Improve your handoff process with Dev Mode features like:
- Ready for Dev View: View the most recent changes first and find what’s ready for development without searching for designs all over the canvas.
- Focus View: Show only the design you’re currently inspecting and hide other designs on the canvas.
- Status updates: A new Edited state and a Completed status to provide clarity around the state of designs.
Figma Design just got even easier
These quality of life updates are available now to everyone.
From responsive prototyping and a more intuitive Auto Layout, to getting started with UI Kits in the asset panel, your favorite features in Figma now work the way you’d want them to.
UI Kits
Get designs started quickly by choosing from a curated set of UI Kits–from Apple and Material Design–that are available directly in Figma.
If your team or organization does not want to use the new UI Kits, admins on the Professional, Organization, or Enterprise plans can turn off the entire UI kits feature.
To disable UI Kits:
- From the file browser, click Admin in the left sidebar.
- Select the Settings tab.
- Under Resources, if UI Kits is enabled, click the toggle to disable the setting.
Disabling UI Kits will mean that none of these UI Kits will be available in files or discoverable via the library modal.
Learn how to access and use UI Kits →
Multi-stack Auto Layout
Let Auto Layout work harder for you with new capabilities and more intuitive interactions.
Automatically apply multiple Auto Layout frames at once with ⌃ Control ⇧ Shift A or ⌃ Control Alt ⇧ Shift A to full design elements.
Learn more about multi-stack Auto Layout →
Auto Layout improvements
Think less, layout more. Reordering, absolution positioning, and set to fill in Auto Layout now work more like you’d expect.
Learn more about usability updates →
Responsive Prototype viewer
Experience your designs on any screen size with a new prototype viewer experience that resizes responsively. Available in both prototyping view and the inline viewer.
Learn how make prototype views responsive →
Billing improvements
We’ve recently introduced two actions admins can take for more visibility and control over their billing.
Enable more frequent billing notifications: Today we send you an email about upcoming charges a few days before your invoice by default. To supplement this email, you can elect to receive daily or weekly billing notifications.
- These additional emails include who has upgraded and what action led to their upgrade.
- Starting today, these additional emails will be turned on by default for new accounts— weekly on Professional, and monthly on Organization and Enterprise.
- Existing customers can turn them on at any time.
Require admin approval for seat upgrades: To require admin approval for seat upgrades, you can set the default role for anyone joining your Figma account to “viewer-restricted”. This will require an explicit admin approval before any new user gets upgraded to a paid seat.