The SaaS Apocalypse Is a Goldmine With Figma’s Matt Colyer

The SaaS Apocalypse Is a Goldmine With Figma’s Matt Colyer

From AI and I by Dan Shipper

June 3, 2026 · 34 min

About this episode

Matt Colyer discusses the opportunities AI presents for SaaS companies and the importance of design processes.

The "SaaSpocalypse"—the panic that AI will make software-as-a-service obsolete—hasn't rattled Figma’s Matt Colyer. As the company’s director of product management for developers, he's been building his own agents for two years and is buying more software services than ever. In addition to making the case that AI is a “goldmine” for SaaS companies, Colyer talked with Dan Shipper for AI & I about why great design requires a diamond-shaped process: First you diverge, generating as many ideas as possible, then you converge around the best ones. Chat is linear, which makes it good for iterating on one design but bad at generating lots of options. Figma's new on-canvas agent is a first attempt at fixing that. They also get into why AI design tools need to break free of the text box, how Figma's MCP server is closing the loop between code and design, and why "review" has become the biggest bottleneck in AI-assisted product work. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper Timestamps: 1:03…

People in this episode

Host: Dan Shipper

Guest: Matt Colyer

Topics covered

  • SaaS
  • AI
  • design thinking
  • product management
  • software services

Keywords

  • SaaSpocalypse
  • AI
  • Figma
  • design agents
  • MCP server
  • product work
  • context problem

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Figma, Apple, Google

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