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“Over the next few weeks, we are replacing the bottom right notification button for library updates and replacing with a new library icon for faster entry to library management.”

Figma shared the Config 2024 lineup with more than 75 speakers from around the globe — it’s absolutely bonkers this year, with folks from Teenage Engineering, The Browser Company, Humane, GitHub, Perplexity, Not Boring Software, Artifact, Ableton, Cron, Linear, Work Louder, Vercel, and many many more. This year’s conference tracks will be organized in a few stages, with separate conversations hosted around design systems, development and code, quality, leadership, etc. Can’t wait!

Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of the Verge, talked to Dylan Field in a live interview from SXSW about life after the failed Adobe deal, the new multi-edit and Dev Mode, generative AI, the state of the web, design trends, solarpunk, and what comes next. Nilay is a great interviewer, so I highly recommend reading (or listening!) this conversation.

Fast Company calls Figma one of the ​“most innovative companies in applied AI” for boosting creativity and digital collaboration with the OpenAI-powered Jambot plugin for FigJam. Wild to think that it was born out of an internal two-day AI hackathon just eight months ago. (For additional context, see the above interview with Nilay Patel.)

“Researcher Gus Griffin recently completed one year on artificial intelligence work at Figma. In this conversation with Figma’s Head of Insights, Andrew Hogan, Gus walks through AI feature fatigue, what people really want from artificial intelligence, and how his anthropology background helps him do his work.”

Designer Advocate Mal reminds us that it’s crucial to consider the discoverability of components when building a set and points to a new feature of the Assets library that shows a number of component variants and a playground for exploring them.

I often rely on the Spread value in shadows but forget why it is disabled. Handy reminder from Ilya Miskov.

Mizko is rebuilding his portfolio and sharing a behind-the-scenes look into his end-to-end strategy, design, and build process in Figma and Webflow.

Free plugin for generating linear, radial, and conic gradients interpolated in a variety of color spaces, yielding richer, more brilliant gradients. Live updating so you can easily view and tweak the results.

The new Dev Mode plugin for instantly generating React components from selected nodes. See how it works and why Vijay made it in the Twitter thread.

“App icon template for iOS 17. See your app icon in context. Editable app icons so you can borrow shapes and styles for your own creations. Made in P3 color space to assure accurate colors.”

Free website UI kit made by Framer?! You got my interest. ​“Easily transform your ideas into a fully functional, responsive, no-code SaaS website design within minutes using these free components for Framer and Figma.”

Blank is ​“the fastest Figma UI kit and design system for your projects.” It includes weekly updates, an extensive component library equipped with all the necessary stuff for your next project, tokens and variables support, light and dark modes, open-source icons, and ready-to-use layouts.