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The design process and why it matters
Achieving good design requires more than just working in a design tool. It requires clarity, collaboration, and a disciplined approach that guides creative teams towards a clear and meaningful goal for their design work. Learn what the design process looks like and why it’s so important.
What’s New
Five areas Figma need to improve on to stay a step ahead
Steve Dennis reflects on his experiences of using Figma and tries to identify the biggest pain points. It’s a thoughtful list of possible improvements that I pretty much agree with. Design tokens and the official marketplace would be at the top of my list.
Apple Event
iPhone 14 Pro Vector Wallpapers
Fons Mans recreates the new iPhone 14 Pro wallpapers in Figma.
Animating Dynamic Island
Zander Whitehurst shows how to animate the newly introduced Dynamic Island in Figma supafast.
Collaborative Dynamic Island
Luis shows the only Dynamic Island notification we’ve been waiting for.
20+ iPhone 14 Mockups
A collection of fully customizable iPhone mockups, including Plus, Pro, and Pro Max models.
Using Figma
A Designer’s Balancing Act: Staying Creative and Organized in Figma
The design team at Spotify discusses balancing conflicting goals of creating a playful space for experimentation and fostering interdisciplinary team collaboration in the Figma files. The key to achieving both is balancing the exploratory nature of design with a logical organization in your shared work. “A chaotic mess of brilliant designs is incomprehensible without a helpful file structure but too much structure early on might stifle your team’s inspiration.”
How To: Unmoderated User Testing in Maze Using a Figma Prototype
“Coordinated, moderated usability testing takes time. Maze makes it faster and easier with unmoderated user testing! In this video, Pamela Porto provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to create a usability test in Maze with a Figma Prototype.”
Archiving pages in a file
Clara Ujiie shows how to archive your work using pages and version history.
Using FigJam
Quick palettes
Easy and fast way to access a pre-defined color palette in FigJam.
Blurring out areas of your FigJam file
A super useful tip by Miggi. The power of combining FigJam with Figma always keeps surprising me.
Plugins
Ando – AI Copilot for Designers
Ando is out of beta. It’s a plugin using Stable Diffusion to generate AI art right in Figma. If you didn’t have a chance to play with Stable Diffusion yet, check out DreamStudio Beta from its makers.