Product Marketer Sarah Kelly and Designer Advocate Kaitie Chambers share all the recent launches and introduce a few brand-new features. The Figma team also gives hands-on demos on how to use the new features in your workflow immediately.

Plugins are now available in Figma Slides, and three dozen plugins have already been updated to support it.

“See when teammates and invited guests last visited your Figma files, helping you track engagement and keep projects moving forward.”

Keyboard shortcuts were finally added to boolean operations! Press ⌥⬆ (Mac) or Alt+⬆ (PC) with U to unify your selection, S to subtract, I to intersect, E to exclude, and F to flatten. The ⌘E still works for Flatten!

“We’ve made the scrubbable area to the left of input fields larger to make it easier to start scrubbing. We also fixed a bug that inadvertently made 1 pixel scrubbable on the right side of an input field. Rolling out over the next few days, you’ll only be able to initiate scrubbing from the left side of an input field.”

Gabriella shares her take on Scott Belsky’s article Collapsing the Talent Stack (which I also highly recommend): ​“I’ll start with what it means to collapse the talent stack. My interpretation is that it’s about having the same person own multiple parts of a process, and therefore naturally, have the same person act as multiple ​“roles”. It’s when the designer owns copy across the product, and therefore, owns the responsibilities of what other companies might hire the specialized role of ​“copywriter” for. Or a product manager running and analyzing user interviews, owning traditional responsibilities of a ​“user researcher”. It’s about streamlining work so that a single person handles as much of the process as possible.”

“Kevin Bethune is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of dreams • design + life, a think tank that delivers design and innovation services. He is the author of Reimagining Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation and, most recently, Nonlinear: Navigating Design with Curiosity. In this conversation with Figma’s Head of Insights, Andrew Hogan, Kevin shares his creative approach to problem-solving and shows that sometimes, taking a nonlinear approach leads to better outcomes.”

Ridd shows an advanced way of using variables to simplify prototyping and save a bunch of screens.

Jay from Sneak Peek partnered with Figma to launch a new video series, where he looks inside the Figma files of top designers. In this interview, Jay chats with Tammy Taabassum, a Product Designer at Figma. You will learn how designers at Figma organize their files, do engineering handoffs, design critiques, and more.

Nolan Perkins designs a Pomodoro app on a live stream. Check out the file as well.

Visual Electric is now available as a Figma plugin! It’s the first image generator built for designers, so you can ditch stock photography and generate precisely what you need. Requires an account; the free plan includes 20 image generations per month.

Jitter is a fast and simple animation tool. The plugin was rebuilt from the ground up for pixel-perfect compatibility, better performance, and powerful new import features like Figma Slides support, importing multiple frames or an entire Figma file, and better artboard pasting.

Rehearse is a clever plugin for Figma Slides — practice your presentation and see exactly how long you spent on each slide and the total time for your deck.

What a fun design challenge! Tommy Geoco and Hunter Hammonds came up with a prompt to design a landing page for an AI robotics company and provided live commentary, while Brett from Designjoy built a website in Framer and Henrik built another in Lovable, all in just 45 minutes.