The Product Podcast OpenAI & Figma Product Builders on Killing the Design-to-Code Handoff and Vice Versa | Ed Bayes & Matt Colyer | E290
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Apr 1, 2026 Ed Bayes, design lead at OpenAI bridging design and engineering with Codex. Matt Colyer, product director at Figma building code-to-design integrations like Code to Canvas. They explore AI-powered round-trip workflows, agents that update design systems, live demos of code-to-canvas and canvas-to-code, and how interoperability speeds prototyping and changes team roles.
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AI Collapses Design And Engineering Silos
- AI is collapsing design and engineering silos by enabling designers to work in code and engineers to iterate in design.
- Matt Colyer and Ed Bayes describe a hybrid workflow where teams move fluidly between Figma and Codex using interoperable tools and agents.
Automate Design Library Chores With Agents
- Use agents to automate repetitive design-library updates so teams focus on high-level taste and interaction decisions.
- Matt shows agents adding variables, token collections, and component states inside Figma to remove manual layer-and-prop work.
Ship Foundational Skills To Democratize Design Automation
- Build and share foundational and community skills that encode design patterns so non-engineers can run complex Figma API tasks.
- Matt describes shipping recipe-like foundational skills and a plugin marketplace to compose capabilities.