“Org Admins on the Enterprise plan can set a public link sharing policy for Design and FigJam files at the workspace level. This allows customers to have different policies for different workspaces, thereby unlocking user testing and external collaboration in some areas of the business without sacrificing security in other areas.”

Updated corner radius UI makes it easier to bind a variable to each individual corner.

Admins in Enterprise organizations can now make workspaces feel distinct with customized icons, header colors, and descriptions.

Organizations can require approval for using plugins and widgets, and now Akbar shows a new way to request it straight from the plugin’s popup. They’ve also made it easier for admins to review the requests. (If you’re a plugin author, consider specifying networkAccess in the manifest.)

In addition to setting the default role, admins can get email notifications to keep track of who has upgraded and what action led to their upgrade.

A new setting for more control over billing in Figma — admins can set the default role for anyone joining their Figma account to be editor, viewer, or viewer-restricted.

New ways to manipulate colors and glyphs in Figma, coming directly from the team. #18: Two new blend modes that are most applicable to designing for iOS, as explained by Rogie — plus darker (linear burn) and plus lighter (linear dodge). Now we can do a classic dodge and burn! #19: Scrubbable inputs in color pickers. Use your mouse to drag or ​“scrub” individual fields to get precise control over your colors. #20: Alpha values in color inputs will be applied to the color’s opacity. #21: When outlining a stroke within a text node, the text is now converted into a group of vector nodes, one per text glyph.

New frame presets and device frames for iPhone 15, 15 Plus, 15 Pro, and 15 Pro Max. Moreover, Keeyen created vector iPhones for prototyping and shared them with the community.

A few small tweaks to the visual experience of designing in Figma. #14: Whoa, now you can see both horizontal and vertical offset when hovering over objects while holding Option! (Used to be only one or another.) #15: Click targets are no longer jumping around when removing effects. (This one was pretty hilarious, but not in a good way.) #16: New red indicator lines show when you’ve reached min and max widths — even when typing or resizing paddings. #17: Arrow ligatures now work in section and frame titles. (FWIW I have a better solution!)

A cool bunch of improvements to Figma this week! #10: Select and copy items on the canvas while viewing version history. #11: Copy the URL of a file via Quick Actions. #12: When pasting links over existing selected text, you can now paste and match style so the text you’ve selected will be replaced by the URL or email address you want to paste in, rather than auto-link-ifying the selected text. #13: Exporting objects with a multiplier applied no longer occasionally adds an extra pixel to width and/​or height.

Week 2 of the Little Big Updates is all about collaborating more creatively. #5: Embedding MP4 and MOV video files directly in FigJam. #6: A new look for the embedded content in FigJam. #7: Camera selection and better audio/​video effects in the Photo Booth widget. #8: 300+ new emojis in the emoji picker after upgrading to Unicode 14.0. #9: When you stop following a spotlight in a Figma or FigJam file, a new reminder will appear prompting you to rejoin your teammates while the spotlight is still active.

In Recovery Mode, you temporarily regain access to the file and can take limited actions to reduce content and restore edit access. Once you have reduced file memory below 90%, you can exit recovery mode and regain full edit access to your file.

A new take on Little Big Updates from Figma — every Thursday this fall they’re releasing some of the 30+ updates designed to make day-to-day life a little easier. This week it’s four improvements to the Assets panel. #1 is filtering assets by a specific library file, recently viewed, default libraries, and more. #2 is larger and more visible thumbnails. #3 is showing component names by default, with variant counts on hover. #4 is my favorite — clicking on an asset opens up a new component modal that displays a larger preview and a link to the main component file, plus a component playground on the paid plans where you can preview and interact with any variants, variable modes, or component properties.

“Our new Community Libraries Beta offers the building blocks you need to start designing, right at your fingertips. As part of the Beta, users on free plans will have access to a special selection of community wireframing, UI, and icon kits. Just click into the Assets panel and Library modal to browse through the featured libraries and design faster than ever.”

A few improvements to variables: 1) in addition to scoping number variables, you can now also scope color variables, 2) select multiple variables with Shift or Cmd for the bulk edit, 3) code syntax for defining different names for multiple platforms, and 4) modes for instance sublayers. Variables are still in beta and it’s great to see how fast the team iterates on them.

In the last 2 months Figma quietly shipped more than 200 updates to the Dev Mode workspace 🤯 This article goes through the most important 35 changes and improvements.

“Saving” and ​“liking” resources are now combined to make Community simpler to use. Your saved resources are available from your Community profile or the Resources dropdown in a Figma file.

You can now embed videos in FigJam. MP4 and MOV files are both supported.

The number of installs or downloads used to be the only metric in the Community, but over time it was replaced with how many times a resource was used. Now you can also rate and review Community resources. It’ll be interesting to see which of the most used resources are also the most loved ones.

“On the Enterprise plan, workspace admins can now brand the workspaces they manage to reflect their group by adding custom icons to workspaces. Organization admins can do this for any workspace in the organization as well.”