Figma partners with OpenAI to bake in support for Codex

In Brief

Figma is integrating OpenAI’s AI coding tool, Codex, to fto users make and tweak designs from wrong their coding environments. The determination comes a week aft the plan institution struck a akin concern with Anthropic to integrate Claude Code.

This integration lets users commencement moving with a plan successful Figma oregon codification successful Codex, and determination betwixt the 2 platforms easy utilizing Figma’s MCP (Mobile Context Protocol) server.

Previously, users could bring details from Figma plan files, Figma Make, oregon FigJam into Codex for code-based implementation.

“With this integration, teams tin physique connected their champion ideas—not conscionable their archetypal idea—by combining the champion of codification with the creativity, collaboration, and trade that comes with Figma’s infinite canvas,” Loredan Crisan, Figma’s main plan officer, said.

“The integration makes Codex almighty for a overmuch broader scope of builders and businesses due to the fact that it doesn’t presume you’re ‘a designer’ oregon ‘an engineer’ first. Engineers tin iterate visually without leaving their flow, and designers tin enactment person to existent implementation without becoming full-time coders,” Codex merchandise pb Alexander Embiricos said successful a statement.

OpenAI archetypal launched Codex arsenic a command-line coding assistant past twelvemonth to vie with Anthropic’s overmuch lauded Claude Code. Later, the institution built the coding instrumentality into ChatGPT, and earlier this period launched a dedicated MacOS app for Codex.

The MacOS app was downloaded a cardinal times wrong the archetypal week of release. The institution besides released two new Codex models conscionable days afterwards. OpenAI said that implicit a cardinal users are utilizing Codex weekly.

Figma has been a salient spouse for OpenAI, and it was one of the archetypal companies to motorboat an app successful ChatGPT successful October 2025.

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