Figma is bringing together the design systems community on April 16 to share new features, best practices, and a peek into what’s coming next in the half-day event. ​“We’ll share more about new capabilities to make design systems more powerful and easier to adopt, as well as features to connect your system closer to code. Our product sessions will dive deep into strategies for structuring and maintaining your system.”

Considering it’s only a couple of months until Config 2024, it’s pretty clear they will put a bow on some of the features announced last year. Typographic variables, anyone?

This April Fun Day, Figma had some fun with cursors. ​“What better way to celebrate this icon of interaction than with a look back at digital eras through the decades? For one week starting this April Fun Day, you’ll be able to choose throwback cursors inspired by four aesthetics from internet history: We’re calling them 8‑bit, Y2K, Skeuomorphic, and Aero. Here, we reminisce about bygone trends and reveal how we brought these vintages back to life.”

Andrew Hogan, Head of Insights at Figma, talks to Bob Baxley, SVP of Design at ThoughtSpot, about his view on AI’s impact, why it’s so important to design tools well, and what we can learn from history and huge projects like the Apollo Mission.

In another conversation with Andrew Hogan, Ritesh Gupta, CEO and Founder of Useful School, shares how he sees work changing, the value of different identities and ways of thinking, and AI’s impact on UX and design.

A slide deck with 100 Figma tips to make your design workflow smart, fast, and super productive.

Juno Jo kicked off the first Friends of Figma Atlanta event of the year with a guide through the process of constructing a consistent icon library for your projects. In his presentation, Juno explores how to harness the power of Variables to begin tokenizing your system, elevating your design workflow to new heights.

Matt Jumper shares an overview of his 3‑step Figma to Framer web design process — from layout systems and creating styles to how he starts building.

A short explainer on navigating a FigJam file — panning and zooming, keyboard shortcuts, and navigation hacks. I use FigJam for presentations, and navigating sections with a Tab or Shift-Tab keys is my favorite!

A free beta of the design system generator. Figr Identity helps set up styles and variables for color, typography, spacing, grids, radius, and shadows. Automate tedious work by generating a scalable component library and easily managing your design system.

Easily generate a frame with progressive blur, controllable by a set of parameters.

Michael Mignano talks to Jordan Singer, AI lead at Figma and former Founder & CEO of Diagram. They covered the role of human designers in AI, what it’s like building AI features for the world’s leading product design platform, Jordan’s path from coder to designer to product builder to founder, and much more.