Dylan Field gives his first interview since Figma’s big IPO, joining ACCESS Podcast to talk all things design, AI, and what’s next for Figma.

Christine Vallaure explains the basics of getting started with Figma Sites, setting up your first page, and customizing your own blocks.

Thomas Lowry, Director of Advocacy at Figma, shares three best practices for designers to give developers—and the AI agents they use—the context they need to go from design to production.

Advocates Anthony and Duncan discuss how to keep a design system aligned with code: structuring components and tokens for alignment; streamlining design-to-code with tools like Code Connect; confidently maintaining, updating, and scaling your design system; and laying the foundation for more effective AI workflows.

“The Community tab is back in the file browser, replacing the previous Templates & Tools tab, for easier access to your favorite public Community templates, plugins, and more. Now you can also easily discover internal templates published by your teammates with the new Resources tab in the file browser under your team space.”

MDS with a pro tip on using the Measurement tool: ​“Use Shift+M to measure spacing as you adjust. This makes dialing in your line height and Auto Layout container sizes much easier.”

Somehow, I didn’t realize how powerful the pattern fill is in Figma. Another reminder from Miggi that you can select any source you want to be a pattern, and it will live update. You can control the pattern type, scaling, spacing, and orientation.

The Shape Builder is a newer vector tool added to Figma Design from Draw. First, Miggi shows how to use it to easily cut up a shape with a path. Next, he makes a yin-yang symbol with it in just a few seconds.

Miggi: ​“Figma Make is coming to Figma’s free education teams. Students and Educators can now use Figma’s prompt tool to help take designs to functional coded prototypes! Those already on the education plan will require re-verification to continue to use free education teams and access to tools like Figma Make.”

Vijay Verma goes from sketch to a cool illustration of koi fish made in Figma Draw in 6 steps.

If you missed a 2‑hour-long video Vibin’ on Inflight shared in #221, Ridd shared a short snippet demonstrating an advanced technique of turning similar objects into instances of a component by using Select Layers, Master, and Destroyer plugins.

James McDonald and Derek Briggs start a new design podcast together, and I can’t wait to subscribe. I enjoy the format where co-hosts explore topics at length over multiple episodes and listeners get to know them a little better, as was the case with my long-time favorites Design Details and Layout. ​“This podcast dives into design with a focus on learning taste, honing quality, and mastering the craft of great interfaces.”

Dan Hollick is writing Making Software, ​“a reference manual for people who design and build software.“ I’ve always admired the depth he goes to while researching and explaining complex concepts. In this new chapter, he answers every question you’ve ever had about digital color.

Professor Miggi walks through using Figma Draw to detail an endoplasmic reticulum to visualize a plant cell diagram.

Designer Advocate Mal shows how to create a library in Figma Design and enable it in Buzz to build on-brand assets.

A useful checklist for Buzz templates: start in Figma Design, lean on Auto Layout, keep text layers separate for Bulk create, lock image ratios, name layers, use variants, test the template as a user, and share with context. Great reference for keeping self-serve assets on brand.

In this recording of a webinar, learn more about designing, prototyping, and publishing websites all in Figma. Anthony and Lauren walk us through the best practices for making your website responsive and ways to add interactions and animations.

The most recent update to Adobe Illustrator broke copying vectors to paste into Figma. Rogie shows how to fix this.

In this livestream, James McDonald iterates on Ridd’s design for Inflight and talks through design decisions in real time. Nice peek at how product polish actually happens.

Figma turned 13 on August 13th! To celebrate, Rogie streamed the live process of drawing a birthday card with portraits of Dylan and Evan — what a long way from the early sketches!