It seems like our industry is slowly adjusting to the new reality — projects are getting shipped, articles published, and plugins released. The team at Figma made a couple of small but impactful improvements to the app, including Styles support in Selection Colors. They even had a delightful April 1st update! Framer X introduced Figma importer, so now it’s easy to start designing in Figma and finish prototyping interactions in Framer X. This issue also includes remote design resources from the community, a collection of resume templates, and guide for note-taking in remote usability testing. Enjoy!

I hope most of you are settling into a new routine of working from home. If you miss human interaction, Figma just opened their Slack workspace from the Config conference to the public. Since the last issue Apple released iPadOS 13.4 with mouse and trackpad support that makes Figma almost fully-functional on the iPad, Dylan Field appeared at Jason Calacanis’ show ​“This Week In Startups,” and a few cool plugins were released. Enjoy the links, and stay safe out there!

What a couple of weeks, right? The pandemic of COVID-19 makes everything else insignificant at the moment, but maybe this newsletter will give you a short break from the bad news. I hope you can stay home and work remotely to keep yourself and those around you healthy — tools like Figma make this more comfortable than ever.

This issue continues Config recap as more participants shared their thoughts about the conference, and Figma itself published recordings of all talks. One of the most discussed topics in the community is designing with real data, and thanks to plugins there are plenty of ways to fill mockups with content from the APIs. Speaking of plugins, a few collections were published in the last weeks where everyone can find something useful. And don’t miss the discussions on Twitter and a fun chart showing the popularity of product design tools over time. Enjoy the issue!

Config 2020 happened a little over a week ago, and it seems like Figma nailed it with their first user conference. This issue includes a large recap of all the announcements, keynotes, talks, and impressions that were posted after it. Also, don’t miss Ask-Me-Anything with Figma’s Design Director, robust workflow for deprecating old components, plugin development tutorial, and a ton of new community projects both from individual illustrators and large companies. Enjoy!

Figma’s first user conference Config is happening this Thursday, and even while after some pondering I decided not to attend, FOMO is high now. Lineup of speakers looks great, so make sure to register for a livestream of morning keynotes. In the meantime, this issue will fill you in on a collaboration model, syncing colors from Figma to GitHub files, what a native macOS app may (or even currently does!) look like, an interview with the CEO of Figma, an introduction of community remixes, and follow-up on recent outages. Enjoy the links and the conference, if you’re going!

So nice to write an issue jam-packed with good stuff after the holidays break! Today we’ll contemplate Figma’s direction in the future, dive deep into design systems, explore drawing tools, get to know where and how Figma’s UI was designed, discuss working in private without peering eyes, and get an important reminder about backups. This is a good issue to share with your friends and colleagues!

Happy New Year! In the first issue of 2020, we talk about building native mobile apps without writing code, using Figma for presentations, working on UX writing and content design, as well as look back at some of the best articles from the past on migrating design systems and building Figma with C++, asm.js, and WebGL.

Happy holidays to everyone who is celebrating this week! 🎄 In the last issue of 2019, we have the whole section dedicated to Auto Layout coverage, a few stories on switching, a podcast with the creative director of Figma, fantastic article on the current implementation of line height, and a look back at this year and the whole decade from the company itself. Enjoy!

I expected this issue to be very light because of Thanksgiving, but was I wrong! Figma shipped a big update last Thursday that gives all of its users something to be thankful for. Auto Layout is the main news, but in this issue of Figmalion we’ll also cover different ways to create animations, end-of-year surveys and reports, building and moving design systems, and a bunch of plugins (including one by me).