#App Updates

Design system updates

A few minor improvements to working with components and instances.

Editor Quality Updates

“For designers working in Figma, every click matters. We recently launched 30 features, fixes, and improvements to enhance your workflow in Figma.”

Swap your individual variant properties from the right-click menu

A nice way to switch variants without leaving the context. I wonder why this change didn’t make it to the above list of updates?

Introducing a timer to FigJam

Set a shared timer in FigJam to keep brainstorms, retros, and workshops on track. (See the demo below.)

Update to font fallback in FigJam and Figma

Improved font fallback in Figma and FigJam to prevent missing characters when using scripts like Traditional & Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Desktop App for Apple Silicon

Figma desktop app is now officially optimized for M1 Macs. (Used to be only the beta app.)

New desktop ARM beta for Apple Silicon users

Figma Beta app update I’ve been waiting for! So far, it’s really fast and works great on my M1 laptop.

Introducing branching: space to iterate and explore freely

“Today, we’re introducing branching in beta to better enable collaboration at scale. Designers will have the space to iterate and explore freely, while preserving shared files as a single source of truth. Product Manager Meagan Gamache shares a peek into the 13-month journey to beta and what this means for design system management in Figma.”

Publish individual components

You can now select specific components to publish changes in your libraries. Miguel Cardona gives a quick demo in the video, and Figma’s Director of Product Sho Kuwamoto provides context behind this release.

Auto Layout in Figma

A detailed guide to the latest version of Auto Layout.

Create new projects and files from the team browser

Miggi from Figma points to another small improvement shipped as part of this release.

All of your Figma accounts, connected

Seamlessly switch between your work and personal Figma accounts while preserving a single Community handle.

Bulleted and numbered lists

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!

About Figma’s new Starter plan

Figma is changing its free Starter plan on April 21, 2021. Drafts are becoming a personal space for work with unlimited files, pages, and viewers. If you want to co-edit with others, you have to move the file to a team space. They’re removing the two-editor limit in the team space but adding a new maximum of one project with three files and a cap of three pages per file.

Find it faster with quick actions

Fantastic update with an easy way to access your recent actions, Figma plugins, menu items, and more from the center of your canvas.

Stay up to date on design work in Slack

“With the Figma app for Slack, you’ll be notified when you’re tagged in or invited to a file, someone replies to one of your comments, and new comments are made in files you’re subscribed to.”

“Navigate to” connections convert to “Change to”

Love Figma’s attention to detail.

New macOS icon

Ryhan shows the process of creating a new Big Sur-ready icon for Figma desktop app.

Join Figma’s interactive components beta

“With interactive components, you can create reusable, shareable interactive elements for your prototypes. Sign up to get early access to the feature and help us improve before launch.”

What is one thing you wish Figma did and didn’t do?

Replies to this tweet by Sho Kuwamoto, Figma’s Director of Product, provide an interesting peek into the current state of things and what their team might work on next.

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