Figma Motion: from Config buzz to daily toolkit

Figma Motion launched at Config 2025 and has quietly become expected skill, not a novelty. Junior designers who skip it are behind the baseline, not ahead of a trend.

Figma launched Motion at Config 2025, letting you animate designs and hand off interactive prototypes without leaving the file. Months on, it's stopped being a novelty — teams increasingly expect designers to ship motion specs alongside static screens, especially for mobile and app work. If you're still exporting GIFs from After Effects or skipping motion entirely, you're behind the baseline, not ahead of a trend. It's not flashy AI hype — it's a shipped feature inside the tool UK teams already run on day-to-day. Worth 30 minutes to learn the basics even if your current job doesn't ask for it yet, because interviewers and portfolios increasingly do.

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