A linked Figma frame updates when the file does; a pasted-in screenshot of that frame does not. Ten blocks bring the real thing into the document instead of a picture of it.
Each one is the real thing, dropped into the document as itself — a live file, a playable video, a diagram made of text — not a picture taken of it once and left to go stale.
Plays inline, at the point in the document where it was dropped, instead of a link that hands the visitor off to another tab.
The same inline player for a Vimeo source — the video sits in the document instead of behind a link that opens somewhere else.
A screen recording that plays inside the document, so a walkthrough sits next to the steps it explains instead of behind a separate link.
A design frame that stays live: the embed reflects the file as it is now, not a picture of what it looked like the day it was pasted in.
A linked document embedded in place, showing its current draft instead of whatever text was there the day the link was added.
A live spreadsheet, showing today's numbers instead of a table that was accurate once and never updated again.
Opens, zooms and pages through inline, instead of downloading as a separate file the moment someone clicks it.
A link turned into a preview card — title, image, and source — instead of a bare underline with no hint of what's behind it.
Written as text — a few lines of nodes and arrows — and drawn as a picture, so the diagram changes the moment the text does.
A freehand sketch or whiteboard that sits in the document as a picture — a double-click opens a full-screen editor without leaving the tab, and the picture updates the moment you save.