Figma makes code a design material

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Figma’s code layers are now rolling out in open beta, letting teams bring designs, GitHub repositories, local folders, and live websites into a shared canvas. The important shift is not simply design-to-code automation; it is making functional behaviour visible during exploration.

For a multidisciplinary studio, this shortens the distance between visual direction and product reality. A landing page, interaction pattern, or editorial prototype can be tested as something that moves and responds—not just as a polished still.

The useful constraint: treat generated code as an exploratory material, not as a final engineering decision. Studio Wensday could use this to make stronger creative arguments earlier, while preserving a deliberate handoff once the direction earns its place.