Loredana Crisan - Figma's big bets for the future of AI design

This week we are going behind the scenes of Config 2026 with Loredana Crisan (Figma’s Chief Design Officer) https://www.linkedin.com/in/loredanacrisan/
We talk about Figma’s vision for AI, why design is having “an identity crisis and a renaissance at the same time,” and what it means to use AI to express what’s already in your head (not outsource creativity to it).
It’s a clarifying conversation about taste, tools, and the future of design 👇
Some highlights:

• Designing systems not screens
• Loredana’s mental model for AI as a tool
• Building your own tools and mini apps in Figma
• What Figma is learning in their own UX research
• What types of designers Figma is hiring right now
• + a lot more