IBL News | New York
Figma is developing a tool that will translate designs into coded applications using the MCP (Model Context Protocol) with agentic coding systems such as Copilot in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Code.
This will reduce the amount of work it takes for AI coding tools to transform designs into functional applications.
Figma plans to release a series of Dev Mode MCP Server updates “in the coming months,” including remote server capabilities and “deeper codebase integrations.”
The Dev Mode MCP Server rollout, now in beta mode, follows the prompt-to-code Figma Make platform introduced in May, which became available to all Full seat Figma users this month.
This allows users to create working applications by describing them. The Figma Sites Code Layers feature, which provides AI tools for turning designs into interactive website experiences, will be rolling out on June 12th.
Until recently, the only way to provide design context to AI tools was to feed an image of a design or an API response to a chatbot. This has changed with the recent advent of the MCP standard for how applications provide context to LLMs.
“Whether it’s creating new atomic components with the proper variables and stylings or building out multi-layer application flows, we believe this server will provide a more efficient and accurate design-to-code workflow,” said the company.
OpenAI claimed it reached $10 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR), up from $5.5 billion the previous year, primarily driven by its ChatGPT business products and developer API, with three million paying business customers. The company aims to achieve $125 billion in revenue by 2029.
