On 6 October, at its annual Dev Day, OpenAI announced that the design platform Figma will be natively integrated into ChatGPT. Users can now generate diagrams, edit images and co-build prototypes without leaving the chat. The news sent shock-waves through tech and design circles; by 9 October Figma’s stock had jumped more than than 30 %.

In a Bloomberg interview, co-founder and CEO Dylan Field revealed how the partnership came to life, why it matters for designers and casual users alike, and what it signals for the future of collaborative creation.

At the same time, OpenAI unveiled a new in-conversation “apps architecture” that lets ChatGPT talk to multiple third-party services on the fly. Alongside Figma, launch partners include Booking, Canva, Coursera, Expedia, Spotify and Zillow. These apps will surface inside the chat whenever they can speed up a task—turning ChatGPT into a single gateway for work and learning.