Figma AI
AI-Powered Design Features Inside Figma
What is Figma AI?
Figma AI is a suite of artificial intelligence features built directly into the Figma design platform. Figma AI helps designers move faster by automating repetitive tasks, generating draft layouts, renaming layers, and providing visual search across your design files. Figma AI integrates seamlessly into the existing Figma workflow, so teams can adopt AI-powered shortcuts without leaving the canvas. From quickly making first drafts of mobile screens to translating copy across components, Figma AI accelerates the early stages of UI work. Figma AI is designed for product designers, design system owners, and cross-functional teams who want intelligent assistance inside the tool they already use daily.
Key Features of Figma AI
First Draft Generation
Figma AI can generate first-draft UI mockups from a short text prompt. The Figma AI engine creates editable frames using auto layout, so designers can iterate immediately rather than starting from a blank canvas.
Visual Search
Search across all your Figma files by example. Figma AI lets you pick any frame and find visually similar designs in your workspace, making reuse and consistency much easier across large design libraries.
Auto Layer Renaming
Figma AI scans selected layers and renames them with meaningful names. This Figma AI feature is a huge time saver before handoff and keeps shared components and pages clean and readable.
Text Rewriting
Use Figma AI to shorten, lengthen, translate, or change the tone of UI copy in place. Figma AI keeps formatting intact, so you can adjust microcopy without breaking your text styles.
Image Background Removal
Remove backgrounds from raster images with one click using Figma AI. This Figma AI tool is ideal for cleaning up product shots or avatars before placing them into composition.
Smart Asset Suggestions
Figma AI suggests relevant icons, components, and styles from your team library as you design. The recommendations help maintain design system adherence without breaking flow.
Figma AI Pricing Plans
Starter
Three Figma files with basic Figma AI access. Suitable for individuals exploring how Figma AI fits into their workflow.
Professional
Unlimited files plus full access to Figma AI generation, search, and rewriting features for working teams.
Organization
Advanced design system controls, shared libraries, and team-wide Figma AI usage with admin governance and audit logs.
Best Use Cases for Figma AI
Rapid Mobile Mockups
- Target user:
- Product designer at an early-stage startup
- Pain point:
- Needs to validate three onboarding flows before standup tomorrow
- Solution:
- Use Figma AI first draft to generate three onboarding variations in minutes, then refine the strongest one with native Figma tools.
Design System Cleanup
- Target user:
- Design ops lead
- Pain point:
- Hundreds of unnamed layers across legacy files block component adoption
- Solution:
- Run Figma AI auto-rename across each file to produce readable layer names so designers can find and reuse the right components.
Localized Marketing Pages
- Target user:
- Marketing designer
- Pain point:
- Five locales need translated copy for a landing page
- Solution:
- Highlight text frames and let Figma AI translate copy in place while preserving the underlying text styles and layout.
Asset Discovery
- Target user:
- Designer joining a new team
- Pain point:
- No idea what components already exist in the library
- Solution:
- Use Figma AI visual search to find similar past designs and reuse approved components rather than rebuilding from scratch.
How to Use Figma AI — Step by Step
- 1
Open a Figma File
Sign in to figma.com and open or create a design file. Figma AI features are available in the standard editor toolbar across all supported plans.
- 2
Generate First Draft
Open the Actions menu, choose First Draft, and describe the screen you want. Figma AI returns an editable frame in seconds.
- 3
Refine With Native Tools
Edit the platform output like any other frame. Adjust auto layout, swap components from your library, and apply text styles.
- 4
Use AI Search
Right-click a frame and choose Find Similar. Figma AI surfaces visually related work from your team files.
- 5
Polish and Hand Off
Use this tool rename and rewrite tools to clean layers and copy. Share the file via Dev Mode for engineering handoff.