--- title: Code, craft, and the making of nested folders | daily.dev description: Figma's team shares how they shipped nested folders — a long-requested feature requiring a full rethink of Figma's content and permissions model — by adopting... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/code-craft-and-the-making-of-nested-folders-cchuxipkp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Code, craft, and the making of nested folders | daily.dev og:description: Figma's team shares how they shipped nested folders — a long-requested feature requiring a full rethink of Figma's content and permissions model — by adopting... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/code-craft-and-the-making-of-nested-folders-cchuxipkp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ccHuxIPKP.png og:image:alt: Code, craft, and the making of nested folders og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Code, craft, and the making of nested folders **[Figma](https://daily.dev/sources/figma)** · 11 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Figma's team shares how they shipped nested folders — a long-requested feature requiring a full rethink of Figma's content and permissions model — by adopting a new cross-functional way of working. Engineers led with code as proposals instead of PRDs, designers pushed pull requests and gained empathy for implementation complexity, and the PM stepped back from day-to-day execution to focus on strategy and customer discovery. The team blurred traditional role boundaries, ran an early-access program, and maintained trust through shared rituals like weekly bug bashes and live design-engineering pairing sessions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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