Story
Figma wants code to remain design material
Config’s code layers are an attempt to narrow the gap without pretending it can disappear.
Topic dossier · Reviewed
Design
Interfaces, systems, craft, and the culture of making products legible.
Editorial scope
Design
Interfaces, systems, craft, and the culture of making products legible.
Essential coverage
Story
Midjourney remains the strange independent lab in the image race
Its product culture offers a counterexample to both hyperscale platforms and enterprise AI.
Story
Linear is defending calm software in an agentic moment
The issue tracker’s restraint is being tested by a future of machine-created work.
Story
Canva is broadening design without dissolving the craft
Generative tools make production easier while increasing the value of systems, taste, and governance.
Feature
Inside the new design-to-code continuum
Figma, Vercel, Lovable, and Cursor are converging on the same unfinished object.
Interview
Dylan Field on design after the prompt
Config’s public record shows Figma absorbing code and generation without abandoning collaboration.
Interview
Karri Saarinen on the discipline of calm software
An annotated reading of Linear’s approach to quality, speed, and interface restraint.
News brief
Figma adds code, motion, and generative systems at Config
The 2026 release expands the design surface beyond static interface work.
Podcast · Signal Path
Signal Path 04: Can design tools absorb code?
Config 2026 and the narrowing distance between a component and a running product.
Film
Config: objects that become software
An annotated cut of the design-to-code announcements at Figma’s 2026 conference.
Profile
Dylan Field and the shared object
Figma’s enduring idea is that design improves when the work becomes visible to everyone around it.