Figma’s AI App Building Tool, Figma Make, Now Available For Use

Figma Make is a new prompt-to-app tool that helps teams turn static designs into interactive prototypes using natural language prompts. It allows users to edit, test, and build experiences without needing to code. Figma says the goal is to let people experience their designs instead of just imagining them.

This means anyone can point to an element in a design and tell the system what to do with it. For example, users can type things like “make this button open a settings panel” or “animate this when scrolling”. The system responds by adjusting the design accordingly, all while keeping the original structure and style intact.

Figma Make uses Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a large language model, to carry out these prompts. It is built directly into the Figma platform for convenience and efficiency. UX/UI designers do not need to switch between platforms any longer.

 

Who Can Use It And What Does It Cost?

 

As of Thursday this week, Figma Make is now available to all users. This follows its beta testing period, during which features were gradually added and improved. Figma announced that users on any plan can try out Figma Make, but there are differences in what each tier unlocks.

Full seat users on paid plans—like Professional, Organization, and Enterprise—get more AI credits and the ability to publish or privately share their files. For example, the Enterprise plan includes 4250 credits per month, which Figma says translates to around 80 to 100 prompts. Professional users get 3000 credits per month.

View, Collab, and Dev seat users can still access unlimited drafts, but publishing is limited. Starter plan users can also create unlimited drafts, but only share three files. These users have access to fewer credits and can’t access all AI features unless they upgrade.

Figma also confirmed that later in the year, users will be able to buy extra AI credits. Until then, credit limits won’t be enforced strictly for Full seat users.

 

 

How Does It Change How Teams Work?

 

According to Figma, the tool makes it easier for product teams to create working prototypes in a shorter time. “It’s a mindset shift that encourages you to play, take risks, and come up with more interesting solutions,” said Gui Seiz, Figma’s Design Director.

He explained that traditional design tools sometimes fail to get ideas across clearly. Figma Make helps close that gap by letting people interact with prototypes rather than just talk about them. “Design can be a lossy process because language is a slippery beast,” he said.

One example is Rie McGwier, a researcher at Figma, who used Figma Make to build a traffic calculator for user surveys. It showed live data inputs like user rates and sampling sizes. “The prototype helped other researchers, research leads, data scientists, and data engineers — people who weren’t in the weeds as much as I was — see the problem,” said McGwier.

 

Does It Help With Collaboration?

 

Figma Make is designed for team members to work together at the same time, in real time. It allows everyone, from product managers to designers, to work together in the same file, adding ideas or testing features without needing a technical background.

Product Manager Tara Nadella said it helped her build a design checker prototype to test new ideas before writing up a detailed plan. “Seeing a prototype helped us get to a feeling much faster when there was so much ambiguity,” she said.

For designers like Kelly Hu and Giorgio Caviglia, the ability to create prototypes in under two hours—something that would normally take days—made a difference when working with developers. “Having the prototype lessened the amount of iteration cycles with engineers because we could get to a clearer decision point,” said Hu.