Figma and Anthropic Bridge the Gap Between AI Code and Design

Figma Launches Code to Canvas

Figma has unveiled a new feature called Code to Canvas in partnership with Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI assistant. The integration allows users to transfer code generated by AI tools directly into Figma's design environment as fully editable layers, bridging the growing gap between AI-powered coding and professional design workflows.

How It Works

The feature leverages Figma's Model Context Protocol to connect AI-generated interfaces with its collaborative design canvas. Users working in Claude Code can simply type "Send this to Figma," and the browser's rendered state will automatically translate into editable Figma layers. The tool can capture multiple screens in a single session, preserving sequence and context for complete user flows.

Why It Matters

Figma CEO Dylan Field argues that as AI makes building software easier, design becomes more essential rather than less. The design canvas offers advantages over prompting in coding environments for comparing multiple approaches and making detailed adjustments through direct manipulation. Field has positioned Figma as a collaborative space where humans and AI agents work together rather than independently.

Market Context

The announcement arrives during what traders have dubbed the SaaSpocalypse, a sector-wide sell-off that has erased nearly one trillion dollars in market value from software stocks in early twenty twenty-six. Figma's own stock has declined roughly eighty-five percent from its fifty-two-week high. The company, which went public in July twenty twenty-five with shares surging two hundred and fifty percent on its first day of trading, now faces investor concerns about AI tools potentially disrupting traditional software business models.

Looking Ahead

Figma is scheduled to report fourth-quarter twenty twenty-five results on February eighteenth, with analysts expecting revenue of approximately two hundred and ninety-three million dollars. The Code to Canvas launch builds on an earlier January partnership that brought Claude into Figma's FigJam whiteboarding tool for generating diagrams, signalling a deepening relationship between the two companies.