This week on weâre joined by Emil Sjölander from Figma â talking about bringing Dev Mode to Figma. Dev Mode is their new workspace in Figma thatâs designed to bring developers and design to the same tool.
The question theyâre trying to answer is âHow do you create a home for developers in a design tool?â We go way back to Emilâs startup that was acquired by Figma called Visly, how we iterated to here from 20 years ago (think PSD > HTML days), what they did to build Dev Mode, what theyâre doing around codegen, the popularity of design systems, and what it takes to go from zero to Dev Mode.