Figma

Figma is the leading collaborative design platform used by millions of designers, product managers, and developers worldwide. Founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace, the company was the subject of a $20 billion acquisition attempt by Adobe that was ultimately blocked by regulators in 2023. Figma went public in 2024.

Figma has integrated AI throughout its platform with Figma AI, which includes features like AI-powered design generation from text prompts, automatic layer naming and organization, AI-driven prototyping suggestions, and visual search across design files. The platform's Make Designs feature can generate UI components and layouts from natural language descriptions, while AI-powered features help with asset search, color palette generation, and design system compliance.

Figma's position as the dominant design tool for software teams gives its AI features immediate access to millions of professional users. The company's collaborative, browser-based architecture is well-suited for AI-assisted design workflows, and its extensive design data (billions of design decisions across millions of files) provides a strong foundation for training design-specific AI models.