Videos from Config. Component Properties & Auto Layout.
App Updates
Branch merge stability fixes
Figma fixed a number of bugs that should make your branch merges go a lot smoother.
More ways to use widgets in organizations
Now organization admins can better control which widgets are available to their organization’s members.
Figma menu update
The main menu order was updated to reach full parity between Figma and FigJam.
What’s New
Config 2022 recordings
Recordings of all 68 sessions by 100 speakers from Config 2022.
Figma Bites
Great collection of short videos about Figma by Chris Michel, UX Lead at Google.
A step forward in our accessibility efforts
Figma announced a prototype screen reader beta that includes support for text notes, alt text for images, and the ability to interact with and navigate through prototypes with buttons and keyboard actions like tabbing.
Using Figma
Top 10 Figma plugins to amplify your workflow
The team at One North discusses ten of their favorite plugins.
Figma Helpers: the custom library I use to kickstart my designs
Patrick Morgan created a useful library of Figma helpers and wrote about designing systems and tools for yourself to facilitate your own unique design workflow.
Creating a button component set
Joey Banks creates a button component using both Variant Properties and Component Properties.
Slot components after Config 2022
Ridd is rethinking his approach to content systems with the introduction of Component Properties.
Component Properties walkthrough
To answer some common questions about Component Properties, Tom Lowry re-recorded the little run-through that he did during one of the breaks at Config.
Auto Layout Cheat Sheet
Molly Hellmuth discusses five major changes to the Auto Layout introduced at Config 2022.
Auto Layout spacing mode
Miggie with a pro tip on Auto Layout — typing in “auto” as the spacing value will change the spacing mode from Packed to Space Between.
Default Auto Layout values
Cool minor improvement — default Auto Layout value now reflects the Big Nudge number instead of being hardcoded to 10 pixels. You can change it in the Preferences → Nudge amount.
Truncated text shortcut
Another great shortcut from Miggie to avoid going into the advanced type settings menu — click on the “Fixed size” icon while holding Option (Alt) to enable truncated text. (With so much free space to the right, I wonder what’s the justification for hiding this option in the menu.)