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!

Luis built an audit widget that scans your Figma library and shows components missing variables, styles, descriptions, or links. In the end, it prints a summary frame for a log.

Christine Vallaure created a new Figma library to kickstart your project with ready-to-use customizable components, fonts, and color styles to match your brand and vision. The library works with Figma Sites, where you can drag and drop your site together and then just publish it with one click.

Figma launched a community for Figma Make, so now you can see what was built with this prompt-to-app tool.

Ridd got an inside look at Figma Make while talking to Holly Li and Nikolas Klein about the future of prototyping. In this episode of the Dive Club podcast, they rethink what ​“high fidelity” means, explore how Make fits into the design workflow, and discuss use cases they’re most fascinated by.

Anthropic Product Designer Meaghan Choi and Figma Developer Advocate Akbar Mirza show how Anthropic goes from design to prototype to production with Claude Code and Figma’s Dev Mode MCP server.

Ana Boyer: ​“Just as design systems help design and engineering teams understand brand guidelines, best practices, patterns, and code, they give AI agents the context they need to produce not just any output, but the right output. And when AI agents can build with your design context, they create a flywheel effect: AI strengthens your design system, which powers better AI code generation.”

Great analogy: ​“Asking an AI agent to generate code without design system context is like asking a new engineer to start shipping code before onboarding. It might technically work—but it won’t align with how your team actually builds.”

Joey Banks shares a free lesson from his course with Dive readers on how to use Figma’s MCP Server. 

Rogie walks through quality of life updates for Figma Draw’s variable width stroke feature. Now you can select a width point and double click to enter a numerical value; after selecting a width point, you can go to the next one with Tab and the previous one with Shift-Tab shortcuts; with a custom width profile, you can see a preview of the shape or edit the width profile from the menu; hold Control to disable Snap to Pixel for more precision; select two width points by holding Shift and resize both together.