# design automation

Published articles for design automation.

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## Figma Is Turning Designers Into Plugin Makers

DevFeed: [Figma Is Turning Designers Into Plugin Makers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/figma-is-turning-designers-into-plugin-makers-17416.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://webdesignerdepot.com/figmas-new-idea-is-wild-just-ask-ai-to-build-the-plugin-you-need/>)

Author: Alex Harper

Published: 2026-09-14T15:30:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Web Designer Depot](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/web-designer-depot.md>)

Topics: [Figma](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/figma.md>), [Figma plugin](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/figma-plugin.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [shaders](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shaders.md>), [shader programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shader-programming.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-design-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-design-tools.md>), [ai-for-designers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-for-designers.md>), [ai-plugins](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-plugins.md>), [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [creative-software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/creative-software.md>), [design-automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design-automation.md>), [design-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design-tools.md>), [figma](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/figma.md>), [figma-agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/figma-agent.md>), [figma-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/figma-ai.md>), [figma-community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/figma-community.md>), [figma-plugin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/figma-plugin.md>), [figma-plugins](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/figma-plugins.md>), [figma-shaders](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/figma-shaders.md>), [future-of-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/future-of-design.md>), [generate](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generate.md>), [generative-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generative-ai.md>), [generative-plugins](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generative-plugins.md>), [no-code-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/no-code-tools.md>), [procedural](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/procedural.md>), [shader-programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shader-programming.md>), [shaders](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shaders.md>), [ui-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui-design.md>), [ux-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ux-design.md>), [web-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-design.md>), [web-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-development.md>)

### AI overview

Figma is enabling designers to describe and generate coded plugins with AI instead of searching for existing tools. The article explains that these plugins can solve highly specific workflow problems, be published to the Figma Community or shared privately, and include features such as bulk restyling, type-ramp generation, layer renaming, and prototype-flow checking. Figma also offers AI-generated shaders for procedural and interactive visual effects, with code inspection available for shaders and self-created generative plugins.

### Source excerpt

Figma is turning a wild idea into reality: instead of searching for the perfect plugin, you can just ask AI to build it. If this catches on, designers may stop choosing the tools in their software--and start inventing them on demand.

## Canva Is Quietly Publishing Nearly 1 Million Websites a Month

DevFeed: [Canva Is Quietly Publishing Nearly 1 Million Websites a Month](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/canva-is-quietly-publishing-nearly-1-million-websites-a-month-9266.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://webdesignerdepot.com/canva-is-quietly-publishing-nearly-1-million-websites-a-month/>)

Author: Alex Harper

Published: 2026-09-08T12:02:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Web Designer Depot](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/web-designer-depot.md>)

Topics: [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>), [Search engine optimization (SEO)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/seo.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [webflow](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/webflow.md>), [WordPress](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/wordpress.md>)

Tags: [ai-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-tools.md>), [ai-web-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-web-design.md>), [canva](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/canva.md>), [canva-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/canva-code.md>), [canva-websites](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/canva-websites.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [design-automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design-automation.md>), [design-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design-tools.md>), [framer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/framer.md>), [no-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/no-code.md>), [no-code-website-builders](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/no-code-website-builders.md>), [responsive-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/responsive-design.md>), [seo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/seo.md>), [updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/updates.md>), [ux-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ux-design.md>), [visual-suite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/visual-suite.md>), [visual-ui-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/visual-ui-design.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>), [web-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-design.md>), [web-designers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-designers.md>), [web-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-development.md>), [webflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webflow.md>), [website-builders](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/website-builders.md>), [website-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/website-design.md>), [wordpress](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wordpress.md>)

### AI overview

Canva is becoming a significant website platform, publishing nearly one million new websites monthly and more than 89 million since 2022. New capabilities include navigation, SEO controls, responsive layouts, custom domains, analytics, password protection, and Canva Code for creating interactive elements from prompts. The article argues that Canva's main impact on web designers will come from making simple websites exceptionally convenient to create.

### Source excerpt

Canva isn't just for presentations and social posts anymore. Nearly 1 million websites are now being published through Canva every month--and with 100+ new Visual Suite updates, web designers may want to start paying attention.

## Reverse-engineer an ASIC from its chip layout

DevFeed: [Reverse-engineer an ASIC from its chip layout](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/can-you-reverse-engineer-an-asic-20156.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-an-asic/>)

Author: Anish Singhani

Published: 2026-08-05T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Jane Street](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jane-street.md>)

Topics: [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [Reverse Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reverse-engineering.md>), [Verilog](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/verilog.md>), [Routing (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/routing.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [design-automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design-automation.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [puzzle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/puzzle.md>), [reverse-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reverse-engineering.md>), [routing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/routing.md>), [signal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/signal.md>)

### AI overview

Jane Street presents a puzzle that challenges readers to reverse-engineer an ASIC from its physical chip layout, recover the underlying netlist, determine the circuit's purpose, and derive a final answer from its output.

### Source excerpt

Earlier this year we published a puzzle that handed you a complete neural network and asked you to figure out what it did. The response was great, so we've made another one! This time, we're going much deeper down the tech stack. For this puzzle we've designed a chip, but we're only giving you the layout. A crash course in how chips get made Modern chips start life as code.