DESIGN SOFTWARE · FIGMA DISCIPLINED COUNTER TO ADOBE
Figma.
- Episodes
- 13
- First seen
- 002 JUL 13 2024
- Last seen
- 080 AUG 30 2026
- Spoken mentions
- 130
The Fast Hours take
Rory and Drew treat Figma as the disciplined counterpoint to Adobe's sprawl — one app for FigJam, design files and now a slide deck tool (Ep. 38) — and Rory wished aloud that Midjourney would copy its reverse-image-search boards (Ep. 2). Its 2026 shader and in-canvas tooling let Rory 'design in layers again,' hand-building grain and scan-line effects instead of faking them in post (Ep. 72, 74, 75), and its acquisition of Weavy struck Rory as 'a perfect match' (Ep. 54).
Into it 12Mixed 0 Not sold 0Discussed 1 oldest → newest
Receipts about Figma
“Weavy was acquired by Figma, which to me is a perfect match.”
“Figma just did this, which I thought was freaking genius. They almost have an image reference search tool, so it's like a reverse image search in there. … Midjourney, if you're listening, I would love that feature.”
Every episode with Figma
- Episode 80 AUG 30 2026 A 24 Year Old AI Creative Director Gives Away Her Playbook Used for brand mood boards and for her custom HSB-based color-harmony tool Into it
- Episode 75 JUL 26 2026 How to Make AI Images That Don’t Scream “I Used AI” Rory now builds custom shaders here for grain and scan-line effects instead of faking them in post. Into it
- Episode 74 JUL 19 2026 How AI Is Making Human Creativity More Valuable New shader tools let Rory hand-build grain, scan-line and blur effects and design in layers again. Into it
- Episode 72 JUL 04 2026 Taste Isn't the AI Moat You Think It Is Config's biggest release lets users build custom in-canvas tools, shaders and plugins without code. Into it
- Episode 67 APR 26 2026 GPT Image 2 Is Good. But Is It Nano Good? Used afterward to fine-tune kerning on the AI-generated typeface's font file. Discussed
- Episode 54 NOV 02 2025 Midjourney’s Quietly Evolving + One Personalization Hack You (Probably) Didn't Know Acquired Weavy; hosts expect deeper API integration and agentic workflows to follow Into it
- Episode 43 JUN 15 2025 Midjourney Lawsuit, Video Leaks, and New --SRef System Used alongside Weavy for building the show's YouTube thumbnails Into it
- Episode 40 MAY 26 2025 Veo 3 Makes Yesterday's Best Look Like a Beta Test +Runway & Midjourney Check-In New AI website builder, 'Buzz' asset generator, and 'Make' feature impressed Rory for landing-page work Into it
- Episode 38 APR 22 2025 Midjourney v7: Secret Playground of Chaos & Weird + Overhauled Editor Cited as a focused counter-example to Adobe's sprawl: one app covering FigJam, design files and a slide deck tool Into it
- Episode 35 MAR 31 2025 ChatGPT Image Gen Just Went Nuclear! + A (Final) Midjourney V7 Preview Rory builds an ad wireframe here, then feeds the structure into ChatGPT as an image reference so the layout renders exactly as composed Into it
- Episode 16 NOV 03 2024 Midjourney at Scale The Superside Blueprint for Teams w/ Phil Maggs (Superside) Superside's central hub for collaboration and automations, and the target of its brief-to-editable-design pipeline Into it
- Overtime OCT 18 2024 Gen AI for Creators | Pulse Check: Midjourney, Runway, Minimax, Krea, Flux & More Praised for generative UI design and a simple auto-name-layers fix Into it
- Episode 2 JUL 13 2024 Midjourney Hacks That Are Too Good To Keep Secret Rory admires its new reverse-image-search board feature and wishes Midjourney's archive worked the same way Into it
Quick answers
When did Fast Hours first talk about Figma?
Figma first came up in Episode 2, “Midjourney Hacks That Are Too Good To Keep Secret”, published July 13, 2024.
What is the latest Fast Hours episode about Figma?
The most recent is Episode 80, “A 24 Year Old AI Creative Director Gives Away Her Playbook” (August 30, 2026).
How many Fast Hours episodes discuss Figma?
13 episodes so far. In the 13 we have logged in detail, Rory and Drew were into it 12 times, mixed 0, not sold 0, and simply discussed it 1.
