“Effective product development hinges on a well-defined process and seamless team communication. However, implementing these concepts can be more challenging in practice.” AMA discussion hosted by the team of advocates — Lauren Andres, Akbar Mizra, Mallory Dean, and Anthony DiSpezio.

Anthony DiSpezio shares instructions and a script to see your most used keyboard shortcuts in Figma. (Can be a great starting point for setting up an upcoming Creator Micro keyboard!) On my personal computer, the top 5 are undo, deep-select, zoom-in, measure-to-selection, and escape.

Designer Advocate Anthony DiSpezio recommends the best approach for defining variables for theming: primitive variable → semantic variable → semantic style. The core advice is to keep using styles: ​“Styles represent a group of properties that should be applied to a layer or part of a layer. Variables represent individual values within that style.”

(Years ago, I noticed that when Apple announces a change at WWDC it’s better to go with it even if it doesn’t make sense at the moment — they see the roadmap much further. I wonder if it’s the same case with Figma and styles. At the moment they often feel redundant, but Figma made it very clear that they’re not going anywhere — hopefully something will make it clear soon why it was worth keeping them around.)

Anthony DiSpezio shares a community file and a quick tutorial for creating a cute blooming flower effect.

Anthony gives a tip on adding prototype scrolling and interactive components inside your Figma presentations.

Not sure if this is new but super handy for those of us using Figma for presentations!

Anthony DiSpezio with a great tip on controlling opacity and zoom level with the number keys.

“Tune in to hear Clara, Amanda, and Qi walk through how to get started and unlock more font styles. From optical sizing to slant, learn how variable fonts give you more design control and expression.”

Anthony DiSpezio goes deep on hexagons, and this has absolutely nothing to do with Twitter or NFTs.

Anthony DiSpezio with an ode to Auto Layout 👏

The theme of this Maker Week is Figmaverse, and Anthony DiSpezio created beautiful branding and design system. To the moon!

Anthony DiSpezio shares a fun experiment connecting pose detection and Figma plugin API.

Anthony DiSpezio shows the new component insert menu opened by a Shift+i shortcut.

This update allows plugins to create new prototype interactions in the editor. Check out a code sample by Anthony DiSpezio.

“How do product teams hire UX Designers? Anthony DiSpezio, Designer Advocate at Figma, explains the most significant factor in cross-functional team hiring and how this may very well be why you are not hired. In the second part of the episode, Anthony describes the role of Designer Advocate at Figma: a mix of hands-on design and advocacy. To be hired for this role, you need to be a Figma expert with a knack for communication!”

Use bullets and numbers to organize information, emphasize important details, or outline steps. Check out the video by Anthony DiSpezio with a quick demo. Hope you caught the fun lists launched as an April Fools joke!

Check out Figma’s office hours to get an Interactive Components demo and learn tips and tricks.

A quick tip from Figma Designer Advocate Anthony DiSpezio. (While on topic, read the story behind color named ​“rebeccapurple”.)

Designer Advocates Rogie King and Anthony DiSpezio show how the updated Auto Layout works, discuss the best practices, and answer questions from the audience.

Best practices for creating and organizing Variants by Figma Designer Advocate Anthony DiSpezio.