Figma: May 2026 release notes — Make voice input, agent workflows, and desktop updates

Figma’s May 2026 release notes cover a cluster of updates that extend the AI-assisted prototyping capabilities introduced at Config and refine the day-to-day desktop experience.

The most substantive addition to Figma Make is voice-to-text prompting. Designers can now dictate build instructions directly in the Make chat panel rather than typing them. Spoken input is cleaned and displayed as text before being submitted, so the output stays editable. A related addition is question cards: instead of proceeding immediately after receiving a prompt, Make can now pause and surface structured options with short descriptions of the tradeoffs before generating anything. Both changes push toward more deliberate, checkpoint-based AI workflows rather than continuous generation.

Make also gains a Zapier connector that brings in live context from Google Drive, Microsoft Office, Zoom, and more than nine thousand other apps. This matters for teams whose designs depend on real data — approval flows, form structures, data schemas — that previously had to be described manually in prompts. A version history panel now tracks changes across every build iteration and supports instant rollback.

The desktop app update focuses on file navigation: links to Figma files now open directly in the desktop app, bypassing the browser. Recent and open tabs are searchable by name, and files begin preloading in the background before a designer clicks through, reducing transition delays.

For design and product teams, the Zapier connector and question cards are the most likely to change workflow — the first by making real product data more accessible in prototyping, the second by introducing a structured review step into AI-assisted builds that previously had none.