A note to app developers: “We’re releasing a new embed kit that gives you more control and flexibility over how you embed Figma in your website or app.”
The desktop app on macOS now sports a refreshed app icon.
“We’ve added a new export quality setting to give you more control over the file size and quality of images when exporting frames and images from Figma as JPEGs or PDFs. A new quality dropdown in Advanced export settings allows you to choose from High, Medium, or Low quality when exporting as a JPEG or PDF. Low quality will compress your images the most, resulting in the smallest file size, and High quality won’t compress images at all. If you do not select a quality setting upon export, there will be no change to how your files are exported; Figma will follow existing default settings (Medium quality for PDFs and High quality for JPEGs). Also available in FigJam.”
“Org admins on Organization and Enterprise plans can now use Figma’s pre-integrated Google SSO app to configure SAML SSO for their org. Customers on the Enterprise plan can also use the pre-integrated app to enable SCIM provisioning.”
Figma just added 450 new Google Fonts to the app. Select “Google Fonts (8÷24 update)” from the font picker dropdown to access them.
“We’ve improved the experience for moving files. Now you can bulk move a group of files and find the right destination more easily.”
Constraints and a blend mode now display inline when toggled on, or the default is changed.
So much polish has been added to FigJam in the last few weeks! Now, you can change the color of connectors and their text independently.
Ok last one from us: Get your diagrams looking *just right*. Now you can change the color of connectors and their text independently.
— Kelly (@kly_cl) August 29, 2024
(this one is for all you ~particular~ designers out there) https://t.co/EjniX3Dhrv pic.twitter.com/4yhDYjkRNn
Users in Enterprise organizations with workspaces set up can now publish libraries to a workspace in addition to a team or the whole org.
Small improvements to FigJam keep coming — now connectors can connect to the edge or arbitrary spots on an object, not just the NSEW cardinal directions.
At Config, Figma shared a roadmap to make Figma work better for freelancers and agencies. Last week, they launched the first step towards this commitment. Now, you can transfer work to your clients on Pro plans. In the process, you can keep a copy of the work for yourself, and clients can remove collaborators when accepting a transfer to avoid accidental upgrades.
Quality-of-life improvement in FigJam — regardless of connector and shape styling, they will always have the same optical spacing. Also, alignment indicators now appear only when needed and are hidden when the object is being moved across the board. So much cleaner!
Joel Miller, one of the product designers behind UI3 at Figma, walks us through improvements the team is making based on the user feedback: Clip Content is a checkbox again, constraints are more efficient to use, pixel values are brought back to the resize controls in Auto Layout, more actions are shown for a layer, library information added for components, frame orientation controls are back, and blend modes improved. Kudos to the team for listening to the community!
We can’t be friends if you do not react to a new Figma drop in the same way.
If you’re on the Enterprise plan, workspace members can now pin files to the top of their workspaces. “Pinned files help users designate important, shared content so that workspace members can get started with the right resources.”
Day 8. Improved language support in the Tone Dial.
Day 9 brings new slick transition controls to customize the duration, easing curve, delay, etc.
Day 7 drop makes it possible to add all the slides into the deck with no need to choose right away.
Day 6 of new releases with an addition of rulers to Slides.
A few ways to see the pixel values on Auto Layout frames by KC Oh.