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Issue #193 •

Price increase. Figma’s first designer. Design systems Q&A.

Hi friends,

I’m in the middle of two significant milestones with Figmalion. Last month marked 5 years since I sent the 1st issue in November of 2019, and I hope to send the 200th sometime in February. Figma and design tools changed a lot in these 5 years — remember the world before Config, Figma Community, FigJam, variables, AI, or Framer? I’m grateful for the opportunity to write about these topics year after year and get to know so many of you who shape the design community daily.

This is the last newsletter this year; the next one will come out mid-January. I’m taking a winter break to recharge my batteries and travel to spend the holidays with my family. Wishing you happy holidays and a joyful New Year!

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Issue #191 •

Underlines. Variables in Dev Mode. Rethinking design systems.

Decorate underlines

Choose a color, style (solid, dotted, or wavy), thickness, and offset of your underlines.

Get all the variable information you need in Dev Mode

Dev Mode now suggests variables when the value matches a style, color, or size, even if it wasn’t specified in the design. The new color picker also moved in this direction, and now I want this principle to be applied whenever my values overlap with a style or variable. It should be easier both for designers and developers to use the right primitives.

Selecting a variable in Dev Mode now opens a pop-up panel that includes values, properties, aliases, collection information, and more. There is also a new view for all the variable collections used in the file. Watch a demo of all the new features.

New libraries modal

A new libraries modal optimized for adding and browsing relevant libraries. Highlights of this redesign include a new recommended tab and overall improvements to performance and navigation.

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