Config 2024: Fast-track workflows with Figma AI (Mallory Dean, Oscar Dumlao, Cemre Güngör) | Figma

The speaker introduces themselves and discusses the focus on workflows rather than AI in design. They highlight the time-consuming aspects of the design process and the importance of streamlining workflows to save time.

The design process involves getting inspired, pulling references, and starting from scratch. Time is spent on wireframing, filling in gaps, pasting photos, and making revisions. The speaker emphasizes the time-consuming nature of these tasks.

The speaker discusses reinventing design processes to make them faster and more efficient. They explore features to streamline design tasks, refine details, and expedite concept-to-creation journeys.

Features like visual search and search for similar help designers find and reuse assets efficiently. The speaker demonstrates finding similar layers, exploring design sources, and remixing designs without switching tools.

Details how search features in Figma allow designers to search in plain language and find assets without specific keywords. The speaker shows searching for illustrations and icons using plain language descriptions.

Shows the process of creating design compositions from prompts like webpage and mobile app designs. Demonstrates generating design layouts, making changes, and customizing design elements quickly and easily.

Explores using AI to generate text and images efficiently. Demonstrates rewriting text, creating images, and customizing properties like color, font, and spacing. Shows how AI helps speed up the design process.

Further dives into creating diverse designs, adjusting properties, and applying customizations using AI. Demonstrates generating multiple design styles, adjusting properties, and creating design variations from prompts.

Provides advanced tips for utilizing AI features like rewriting text, creating images, and replacing content efficiently. Demonstrates how AI can help designers with specific design tasks and streamline the design process.

Discusses using AI for adding finishing touches to designs. Demonstrates features like remove background, shorten text, replace content, and translate text to enhance and finalize design elements efficiently.

Introduction to using the Rename Layers feature to rename multiple layers quickly and efficiently. Demonstrates how it highlights layers being renamed in real-time.

Provides tips for using the Rename Layers feature effectively, including limitations on the number of layers per selection and skipping locked, hidden, and vector layers.

Explains additional features of the Rename Layers tool, such as skipping intentionally renamed layers, handling locked and hidden layers, and naming component instances.

Discusses the importance of maintaining consistency in renaming layers across frames and files to preserve smart animations and design coherence.

Utilizing AI for prototyping tasks, demonstrating how to quickly generate interactions and review prototypes for improvements. Highlights the ease of editing and removing interactions in the prototype review state.

Details the enhancements in the prototyping state for easier interaction editing and wiring in designs, focusing on fast and efficient design prototyping processes.

Explains the benefits of the Make Prototype feature for streamlining design prototyping processes and freeing up time for creativity and animations.

Recap of the creative process optimization tools discussed, highlighting the importance of fast-tracking design tasks to stay in a creative flow state and focus on creativity and animations.