Figma Config 2025 Review: Was It Worth the Trip?

💡 Key Topics: - What Config is really like in person, and why Toronto has no local equivalent (RGD, Tech Week, Web Summit gaps) - AI fatigue at the conference, and audiences literally clapping when a talk wasn't about AI - Why Figma let agents take a backseat in the keynote, unlike last year's AI-heavy product slate - John on the new production and motion features, and where designers will push them - Anna O on UX for robots and seniors, plus the idea that taste comes from the people you're responsible for - Ella Rochelle Lawton on street art as a design system, and real data on murals improving communities - The Waymo talk: designing for a driverless car and using the note E for calmness (psychoacoustics) - Jezebel DC's "low-tech" talk: why 2000s design was better before attention became the product, with Lego and Animal Crossing as case studies - Chelsea Larson (Anthropic) on language as design, prompts as UX, and AI as cars rather than the Industrial Revolution - A Stripe designer (Matthew) on density in design and the ink-to-meaning ratio, plus "prove the question is a bad idea before dismissing it" - The post-conference verdict versus the pre-trip guesses 📖 Chapters: - 0:06 — Back from Config: first impressions - 0:51 — Conference scale, and why Toronto has nothing like it - 2:18 — Was it AI overkill? First day vs. second day - 3:07 — Why Config is valuable: industry direction and art-based talks - 3:44 — AI burnout and the crowd clapping for non-AI talks - 4:14 — Why Figma let agents take a backseat this year - 5:00 — John on the product release: production and motion - 5:47 — Favorite talks begin - 6:47 — Anna O: UX, robots, and design for seniors - 7:43 — "Taste comes from the people you're responsible for" - 9:01 — Ella Rochelle Lawton: street art as a living design system - 10:14 — The Waymo talk and psychoacoustics (the note E) - 12:10 — Jezebel DC: low-tech lessons from the 2000s - 13:11 — Lego, Animal Crossing, and designing without dependency - 14:53 — Chelsea Larson (Anthropic): language as design - 16:25 — AI as cars, not the Industrial Revolution - 18:50 — The Stripe density talk and the ink-to-meaning ratio - 21:45 — "Prove the question is a bad idea before dismissing it" - 23:33 — The secret second talk: too much talking about craft - 24:40 — Final ratings: 9, 9, and 9.5   🔔 Subscribe for weekly episodes on design, web strategy, and building better digital businesses.   #figma #figmaconfig #config2025 #figmaai #designconference #uxdesign #uidesign #designtools #waymo #anthropic #designsystems #b2bdesign #designindustry #datavisualization **Links** You can learn more about Tennis at our website. Be sure to follow us at LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, or Twitter