A high-quality free tutorial from Design+Code: ​“Design a Web app design inspired by Discord and Slack in the Figma design tool.”

Yuan Qing Lim announced a new version of his boilerplate for creating Figma plugins with support for dark mode, with all components using Figma‘s official color tokens.

Rasmus Andersson shows how to make a simple font in Figma.

Vijay Verma’s massive collection of 3D icons is now available as a free plugin.

“Tune in to hear Clara, Amanda, and Qi walk through how to get started and unlock more font styles. From optical sizing to slant, learn how variable fonts give you more design control and expression.”

Ridd: ​“Switchboards are main components that have been pulled out of a chunk of UI so as to function as a single place to control all of the prototyping connections”.

Ridd warns that using component properties introduces a new type of responsibility for designers and explores what the most effective handoff deliverable actually looks like.

Luis shows a neat trick on how to create an ​“infinite table” using component properties, where we can toggle on however many columns or rows we need in designs.

A nice trick from Gleb on how to create a transparent fill that supports a background blur effect.

Follow Charli Marie’s live stream of working on a quote component and figuring out how to use Component Properties.

Molly Hellmuth with 5 step-by-step examples on how and when to use Component Properties.

Joey Banks on component properties: ​“In the past few weeks, I’ve had the chance to become more comfortable creating components that contain component properties. What has helped me the most has been to think of this new feature as an additional way, not a separate way, to further organize and create components and variants that scale with the library and system.”

A new plugin by Rogie King fixes the most common issues with importing and copy-pasting SVGs from Adobe Illustrator to Figma. Huge time saver if you’ve ever had to deal with these problems manually!

Miggi shows how to make a reusable and flexible tooltip component set using Auto Layout, absolute positioning, constraints, and component properties.

Joey Banks creates a card layout similar to iOS’s Wallet app with negative values within an Auto Layout container.

Miggi plays with component properties, Auto Layout slots method, and Interactive Components to make some fun modular content prototypes.

This Week in Startups interviewed Jordan Singer, founder of Diagram and creator of the Automator plugin.

Another great shortcut from Miggie to avoid going into the advanced type settings menu — click on the ​“Fixed size” icon while holding Option (Alt) to enable truncated text. (With so much free space to the right, I wonder what’s the justification for hiding this option in the menu.)

Miggie with a pro tip on Auto Layout — typing in ​“auto” as the spacing value will change the spacing mode from Packed to Space Between.

Molly Hellmuth discusses five major changes to the Auto Layout introduced at Config 2022.