Clint Sutherland: Turning Figma Into an AI-Powered Workstation

What happens when you connect AI to the tool you already know inside out? Clint Sutherland is a Figma Jedi. At TON Studio in Perth, he’s using Claude to expand what Figma can do: turning brand rules, reusable components and structured context into proposals, strategy documents and custom plugins. In this episode of Beyond The Brief, Clint joins me to walk through the system he’s building to automate away the grunt work within his brand strategy process in Figma. He covers why he made it, how it works, and why knowing your craft blows open the possibilities when using AI. We cover: 00:00 Cold Open & Intro 01:21 Meet Clint 10:33 Putting AI To Work 15:50 Agentic Brand Systems 21:44 Brand Strategy Deck Demo 36:58 Custom Plugins & Animation 45:10 Proposals & Statements Of Work 49:42 Claude + Figma MCP 51:00 AI, Creativity & Taste 01:02:52 Is Figma Dead? 01:03:39 Reviewing The Generated Deck 01:09:38 Wrap-Up Explore Clint’s work at TON Studio: https://ton-studio.xyz/ Beyond The Brief is hosted by Jarrad Grigg from OVRFLO. https://ovrflo.studio/ Clint has also released the Animated Dynamic Image Layouts plugin he created on Figma Community: https://www.figma.com/community/file/... Subscribe for more conversations with people putting AI to work in design, business and creative practice. #Figma #ClaudeAI #BeyondTheBrief