Figma just added a timeline editor to the canvas and most people haven’t noticed yet.

If you’ve used Figma for design, you know it as the tool that replaced PowerPoint for anyone who cares about how things look. But Figma Motion just dropped, and it turns one of the world’s most accessible design tools into a legitimate animation platform.

We were early on it. A recent campaign video used Figma Motion for the designed elements, title sequences, animated infographics, motion transitions, the layer that makes a video feel like it came from an organization with a real creative department.

What it does

Figma Motion lets you animate layers in frames using a timeline editor, build easing curves, create component transitions, and export motion sequences that drop cleanly into a video workflow. Browser-based, no installation, no render farm. If you can build a frame in Figma, you can animate it.

Why the timing matters

Tools like this don’t stay obscure for long. The people who learn Figma Motion now, while most creators are still exporting static assets, are going to have a visible edge in their content for the next 12 to 18 months. That window closes fast.

Gear Medium is already using it in production

We don’t wait for tools to go mainstream before putting them to work. If it ships and it’s useful, it’s in the stack.