Students of Justus Wunschik’s online class came together to build a beautiful SimCity-inspired city with Figma.

A new 3rd-party app for commenting on Figma files from your phone.

“If you’ve added a description when publishing changes to your team library, your collaborators will now be able to see your notes as they review the updates.” Also, Figma Organization Admins can now turn templates off for their organization.

“Unlocking collaboration is hard, especially for large remote teams. In this livestream, LinkedIn’s Renee Reid and GitHub’s Ash Guillaume share their insights and methodologies for creating collaborative and inclusive design processes.”

A new video and free Figma template from Femke. ​“Impactful designers are great at communicating design decisions and documenting design process. This is the deck to level up your communication and documentation process.”

Figma added two new integrations — one for keeping designs up-to-date in GitLab issues, and another for converting mockups into web pages with Maker. This article talks about some recently-launched integrations to help your product team collaborate in Figma.

Designing and playing Star Trek Adventures in Figma, with a group of people who never used the app before.

It’s a simple design, but the idea is brilliant.

A recap from a presentation that product designer Helena Jaramillo from Coda recently gave. ​“In my experience, knowing how and when to collaborate with others plays a large factor in a project’s success. Here’s a look at how I’ve worked to bring engineers into the design process as early as possible.”

Nine things that team at Si digital learned while collaborating on projects in Figma. ​“If it’s a small project, two can be a crowd for side by side designing. Bring in a large project with a ton of pages and a tight deadline, two becomes the only way to deliver.”

Manage the words across your team’s product with a central source of truth.

Pixelic is a collaborative workspace for Figma users to sync Figma pages, manage frame-level versions, exchange feedback, and manage design tasks in one place. Post ​”When Figma isn’t enough for product teams” shares their vision on how a ​“third workplace” for Figma users could help designers save time and work better. Looks really promising.

Christine Lancaster thinks Figma is the right fit for designing in the challenging times of 2020. ​“Down with design elitism and preciousness. Let’s include the copy writers, the dev team, the client, the PMs, the whole shebang in our design process. Better collaboration means we end up building the right things for the right people.”

Nina Mehta from Mailchimp discusses what design pairing is, how to structure it, and tips for convincing your boss that it’s a good idea. This is a recap from a livestream featured in Issue #13.