Figma's September 2026 release adds native motion tooling directly into the design system layer: custom animation styles, audio, and text animations that teams can define once and reuse across products.
The operational shift is in the automation. Figma's agent and third-party coding agents via MCP can now apply these animations automatically and push changes back to Figma, closing the loop between design and code. Export targets Lottie directly, cutting the handoff step that historically killed animation fidelity.
Community Riffs opens a new distribution channel for animations, prototypes, and experiments on the Figma Community page. The MCP and code viewer updates are worth reading in full because the agent-to-Figma write-back capability signals how much of the design workflow Figma is quietly routing through AI infrastructure.
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