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title: "Code, craft, and the making of nested folders"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/code-craft-and-the-making-of-nested-folders-cchuxipkp
source_url: https://www.figma.com/blog/code-craft-and-the-making-of-nested-folders
type: article
source: "Figma"
published: 2026-08-03T13:58:22.711Z
updated: 2026-08-03T16:18:16.604Z
tags: ["figma"]
reading_time: 11
upvotes: 4
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# 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.

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