figmaNov 19, 2025

Creativity meets precision with Gemini 3 Pro Image Pro | Figma Blog (opens in new tab)

Google’s Nano Banana Pro, part of Gemini 3 Pro, brings more precise and context-aware image editing to creative workflows. The model can generate variations while preserving a design’s visual identity, including its palette, typography, composition, and subject likeness. Figma presents it as a tool for refining and extending ideas across products rather than simply regenerating images. ## Design Coherence Across Variations - Nano Banana Pro retains a design’s “visual DNA,” including color, texture, type, composition, and imagery. - In Figma Buzz, it creates branded social-asset variations while preserving logos, simple illustrations, and overall composition. - It can adapt illustrations for different contexts, such as converting a set of winter-themed images into dark-mode versions with minimal prompting. ## Extending Existing Work - The model can place illustrations into new environments while matching lighting and mood-board references. - In Figma Slides, it embedded an astrology-app illustration into a cozy reading scene and added complementary details such as a star-shaped light. - It can reframe portraits, change camera angles, and update backgrounds while maintaining a person’s likeness. - This makes it useful for keeping employee headshots and other brand imagery visually consistent. ## Building Composite Scenes - Figma Weave enables users to combine graphics, copy, photography, and other visual elements into unified scenes. - Nano Banana Pro helps maintain coherence when disparate assets are composited together. - These scenes can be extended with Google’s Veo for motion, as well as 3D models, upscalers, background-removal tools, and prompt-refinement models. ## Editing in Context Across Figma - The model is integrated into Figma’s products, including Buzz, Design, Slides, and Weave. - Users can refine existing images instead of starting over, making targeted changes to text, spot colors, and other details. - Typography can be localized, faces remain natural, and the surrounding visual context is preserved. Nano Banana Pro is most valuable when creative teams need fast iteration without sacrificing brand consistency or image integrity. Figma recommends experimenting with it directly as a flexible tool for refining, remixing, and expanding visual concepts.

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figmaNov 17, 2025

Gemini 3 Is Now Available In Figma Make | Figma Blog (opens in new tab)

Figma has made Gemini 3 Pro available as an experimental model in Figma Make, positioning it as a tool for turning design ideas into polished, interactive prototypes. Early tests suggest it is particularly strong at exploring varied visual styles, layouts, motion, and interaction patterns while preserving functional fidelity. Figma’s broader conclusion is that AI expands designers’ creative range rather than replacing their role in directing and refining ideas. ## Bridging the Design-to-Code Leap - Gemini 3 Pro was tested on a Thanksgiving gratitude board designed in Figma Design. - It generated animated SVG leaves with on-screen physics, creating a calm, organic motion. - A Supabase connection allowed visitors to submit gratitude notes. - New notes appeared as leaves that revealed their messages on hover. - The example demonstrated how a visual concept could quickly become a functional, code-backed experience. ## Exploring Distinct Visual Styles - A New Year’s Eve RSVP page was used to test Gemini’s stylistic flexibility. - The model first created a Y2K-inspired design with: - Retro-futuristic visuals - Dark chrome styling - A functioning RSVP form - It then transformed the same experience into a “concrete poetry” treatment featuring: - Severe typography - Brutalist tension - Minimal decoration - Gemini maintained the core interaction and form functionality across both radically different aesthetics. - Motion and interactive details were adapted to match each visual direction. ## Working Within Design Systems - Figma tested Gemini 3 Pro in a mature UI environment using Make kits, npm imports, and Figma’s UI3 library. - Starting with a FigJam template, the team asked it to add a canvas background-style switcher. - Gemini produced 12 background styles using the correct UI3 components and functional interactions. - It also added unexpected refinements, including: - Animated transitions between textures - Sticky-note layering - Scaling effects - The result showed that the model could extend an existing design system rather than only generate isolated concepts. ## A Wider Canvas for Design - Figma argues that AI can increase the range of ideas designers are able to explore. - Gemini 3 Pro combines rapid iteration with visual and interaction fluency. - Gemini 3 Flash is also available as a faster, lighter option for quick ideation and refinements. - Both models can be enabled through Figma’s settings under the experimental models section, marked by the lab icon. Overall, Figma presents Gemini 3 Pro as a practical bridge between design, code, and experimentation. It is most valuable when designers use it to explore possibilities quickly while continuing to guide the creative direction and quality of the final result.

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