The fresh look of the Figma Community with improved search and a new browsing experience makes it easier to discover and differentiate between categories like product (Figma or FigJam), use cases (like design systems), and resources (widgets or plugins).

Nice shipment of improvements to the FigJam iPad app, branches review in Figma, and email notifications. You can also import the contents of a Miro board into FigJam now!

Nice improvement! Too bad I can’t stamp +1 on my ideas ten times anymore… BTW, there is a cool easter egg on really old stamps.

Widgets are now available in Figma! Their addition was quite predictable, considering how useful and popular they are in FigJam. Widgets for GitHub, Asana, and Jira were part of the launch. Also, both plugins and widgets are now accessible from the toolbar and easier to try before installing in the Community.

Now organization admins can better control which widgets are available to their organization’s members.

The main menu order was updated to reach full parity between Figma and FigJam.

Figma fixed a number of bugs that should make your branch merges go a lot smoother.

It’s finally here! Pro tip: open the Quick Actions panel (Cmd-/) and type ​“dark” to switch quickly and avoid going through nested menus.

Hosts of the Design Details podcast, Brian Lovin and Marshall Bock, cover all of the exciting new releases from Config 2022 and do a deep dive into the new version of Auto Layout.

If you don’t have 30 minutes to watch Dylan’s keynote, check out the What’s New in Figma page showcasing all announced features in a beautiful way.

Figma CEO Dylan Field kicked off Config 2022 with opening remarks and the launch of 15 new features, ranging from favoriting files to a new version of Auto Layout. At this point, I’m more excited about Dylan’s keynotes than Apple’s. Love how every Config makes our lives better by addressing real problems and small annoyances.

Six new shortcuts to change the view, navigate layers, and paste to replace.

Tabs now show new Figma, FigJam, and prototype favicons. Using an emoji in the file name automatically updates the default icon. Tabs also can be pinned to the left side of the tab bar or dragged out of the existing window to create a new one (super useful for keeping an actual-size preview while working zoomed in).

“These fixes improve the user experience for users who only have access to the branch, so that they can more effectively work within the branch and are less likely to face errors.”

More ways for teams to customize their workspace and freely express themselves: organize documents into Sections, more colors (including adding your own!), sticky note resizing, and more.

A few typographic updates: the new default font size list (finally including 16px default on the web!), Inter replaced Roboto as a default font, and support for faux superscripts and subscripts that can be applied to any font — check out Tom Lowry’s behind the scenes deep dive for juicy details.

Manually update widgets that are already placed on a board.

Several updates to make brainstorming and diagraming even easier in FigJam: a simplified toolbar, text resizing, sticky stamps and highlights, image borders, and more.

Performance updates are always welcome: ​“We’ve reduced the amount of CPU usage FigJam and Figma take up. Large files with many users should run more smoothly now.”

A few improvements to the file browser. As you type in the search field, Figma now shows a preview of matching search results, sectioned off by resource type (files, projects, people, and so on). There is also supposed to be a new filter by a file type, but I couldn’t find it 🤷‍♂️