Are designers the new SWEs? Figma Make's new two-way GitHub integration turns designs into live, production code — with built-in governance

Cloud design software company Figma is officially transforming its AI design assistant, Figma Make, from a prototyping sandbox into a live, visual software editor that connects natively to production codebases. Announced today, the update allows product managers, designers, and non-technical builders to import an existing Git repository directly into the Figma desktop app, visually edit the application's underlying code via the canvas, and push those changes back to engineering through standard GitHub pull requests. Engineering Governance & LicensingCrucially for enterprise deployments, this integration does not bypass established engineering guardrails. Figma Make operates entirely within a standard version control workflow. The platform acts as a local development environment where desig