BEHIND THE BUILD: GENERATIVE PLUGINS AND SHADERS AT FIGMA

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Generative plugins and shaders in Figma gain Community and organization publishing, animated and interactive effects, downloadable code, and MCP server support. The features began as a vibe-coded WebGPU prototype, then moved to a real pipeline system once a rendering engineer rebuilt the sandboxed architecture. With two months until Config, the team dropped PRDs and crits, working from demos and code prototypes in a single Slack channel.