Figma turns 13. Inflight vibing. Glass icons.
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Accessibility Design Toolkit: The Figma Plugin for Accessible UI
Think spellcheck, but for accessibility. BrowserStack’s Accessibility Design Toolkit sits in Figma, flags contrast, spacing, focus order and tap targets, suggests meaningful alt text, and wraps everything into developer-friendly handoff notes and code. Less guessing, less back-and-forth, more inclusive UI.
What’s New
Happy birthday, Figma!
Figma turned 13 on August 13th! To celebrate, Rogie streamed the live process of drawing a birthday card with portraits of Dylan and Evan — what a long way from the early sketches!
Release Notes
More ways to edit images with AI
Updates to AI-powered image editing features across all products — remove background or boost resolution for up to 25 images at once, and choose between Gemini 2.0 Flash and GPT Image 1 to get results that best match your prompt.
Figma Design
Vibin’ on Inflight
In this livestream, James McDonald iterates on Ridd’s design for Inflight and talks through design decisions in real time. Nice peek at how product polish actually happens.
Copy vectors from Illustrator to Figma
The most recent update to Adobe Illustrator broke copying vectors to paste into Figma. Rogie shows how to fix this.
Glass icon sets
A nice roundup of icon sets designed in the new liquid glass style.
Figma Sites
Office Hours: Introducing Figma Sites
In this recording of a webinar, learn more about designing, prototyping, and publishing websites all in Figma. Anthony and Lauren walk us through the best practices for making your website responsive and ways to add interactions and animations.
Figma Buzz
8 tips for designers building branded templates in Figma Buzz
A useful checklist for Buzz templates: start in Figma Design, lean on Auto Layout, keep text layers separate for Bulk create, lock image ratios, name layers, use variants, test the template as a user, and share with context. Great reference for keeping self-serve assets on brand.
Enabling libraries in Figma Buzz
Designer Advocate Mal shows how to create a library in Figma Design and enable it in Buzz to build on-brand assets.