Evil Martians open-sourced their Martian Grotesk font, which I’ve been using at Figmalion for almost 3 years. I highly recommend trying it out and reading about the design philosophy of this project — Roman Shamin put so many innovative ideas into its design, making it an excellent choice for UI design.

Molly shows how to simplify a common list design element by using the new Grids instead of nesting vertical Auto Layout stacks inside horizontal rows.

My friend Christine Vallaure shares a few lessons learned building her educational platform as a company of one. Christine’s approach to running a business is truly inspiring, and she masterfully told her story at this year’s Config and in her new book Solo. (Which I genuinely recommend and she offers a coupon to my readers in the Friendly Promo above, which is not an ad.)

A new plugin from Vijay Verma for setting up the foundation of your design system in just a few clicks. The core variables and styles for the color palette, typography, and spacing are all created from a few customizable presets.

First, that illustration from Miggi is very cute. Second, I have no idea how these talented minds at the Figma Draw team made all of these complex visual effects exportable to SVG. Mad respect!

Miggi shows how to be more experimental and expressive with Figma Draw features like progressive layer blurs, texture, and a custom brush. Learn to pair these with Smart Animate prototyping, and you can come up with some novel effects.

Luis explores what Notion’s design system could look like and how he would approach building it from scratch, including naming conventions and an opinion on the component structure.

As Christine Vallaure writes, ​“if you want to master Figma’s new Grid, you need to know how CSS Grid works.” In this in-depth guide, she explains how both of them work and shows where Figma ends and the browser takes over to do the heavy lifting, so you don’t miss out on the flexibility, responsiveness, and layout power that only the browser can fully deliver.

Meng To first wrote a comprehensive guide on UI prompting, and now recorded this 44-minute tutorial as well.

(Read without a paywall.) The Verge interviews Dylan Field about ​“how he sees AI fitting into Figma after a rough start to integrating the technology last year, the new areas he’s targeting to grow the platform, and more.”

Mal highlights a few core features of Buzz — bulk create, make or edit images with AI, and wonderful templates to get started.

Luis shares a bunch of examples made with Figma Make.

A rare feature that’s both underrated and long-awaited.

Luis shows how to design a data table with grids. This is one of the grid applications I’m most excited about. Notice how he adds notes with the new annotations tool as well — I’ve been using it more and more for notes lately, while keeping comments limited to discussions.

Ridd is spot on: ​“2024: Figma uses AI to help designers design 😡 👎 2025: Figma uses AI to help designers code 🎉 🙌”

Noah Levin, VP of Design at Figma, gives a shout-out to designers behind the new product releases. First, I love seeing the individuals getting recognized for their hard work. Second, this is a great list of people to follow right away.

If you have time for only one thing, watch this Config 2025 opening keynote led by Dylan Field.

Molly shares a tip from Brad Frost’s new course on reusing ​“core tokens” across multiple brands.

Meng To shows how to generate designs in Aura and bring them to Figma. He includes a Figma file with 57 examples and they look pretty good!

Miggi explains how to document your design work using Measurement and Annotation tools.