Miggi shows how to use images as masks.
Martin Bekerman is a great artist — make sure to see more of his works.
Here's an inside look at the guts of the new PFP as built in Figma. Simple shapes with blurs + gradients are really powerful. pic.twitter.com/IA4snshZQM
— 𝙎𝘼𝙑𝘼𝙂𝙀 𝘿𝙊𝙂𝙎 ™ (@mysavagedogs) June 14, 2022
Supafast!
🌁 Animating carousels in @figma, supafast! pic.twitter.com/1PYgLmsJ6g
— Zander Whitehurst (@zander_supafast) June 13, 2022
Rasmus, who used to work on this at Figma, shares his workflow for designing in P3 color space and exporting assets in sRGB. Sadly, it’s still a very tricky process.
I wish Figma implemented color space support (color management.) I design in P3 and my workflow for exporting images is: export, run imagemagick to assign the correct profile (my workspace profile). Finally, run imagemagick to convert the image’s colors to sRGB.
— Rasmus Andersson (@rsms) June 15, 2022
Cool widget recommendations by Zander Whitehurst: Voice Memo, Storymapper, and FigJenda.
🎁 3 wicked Figjam widgets in @figma pic.twitter.com/3VldjuzczV
— Zander Whitehurst (@zander_supafast) June 8, 2022
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.
Excited to announce that v2 of Create Figma Plugin now supports dark mode, with all components themed using @figma’s official color tokens!
— Yuan Qing Lim (@yuanqinglim) June 9, 2022
👉 See all the components in the Storybook: https://t.co/jSqLL3ix5E@FigmaPlugins pic.twitter.com/MjhVFxPtpV
Rasmus Andersson shows how to make a simple font in Figma.
Sunday funday: Make your own font in @Figma.
— Rasmus Andersson (@rsms) June 5, 2022
Copy this file to get started: https://t.co/e9SyhPZpqL pic.twitter.com/rM6ctpKB3h
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”.
One of my favorite design tactics is creating "Switchboards" in Figma.
— Ridd 🏛 (@Ridderingand) June 5, 2022
It's a waaaayy more efficient way of prototyping.
Here's how they work 👇 pic.twitter.com/SmU89pknwS
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.
By now you’ve probably seen a few of these before/after screenshots like the one below:
— Ridd 🏛 (@Ridderingand) May 31, 2022
Pretty incredible, right?
Yes, BUT... pic.twitter.com/wE1HVHY2yI
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.
Tips time!
— luis. (@disco_lu) May 30, 2022
Using component props, we can create "infinite tables"
So we can toggle on however many columns / rows we need in designs
This prevents us maintaining large variant sets for every permutation of table 🍽
Community file to play with: https://t.co/WqNM5SMjSE pic.twitter.com/yhefqrNImC
A nice trick from Gleb on how to create a transparent fill that supports a background blur effect.
Epic @figma tip I learned from @edpratti (Material You file)
— Gleb Sabirzyanov ❤️ (@gleb_sexy) June 1, 2022
Transparent fill that supports background blur effect! 🤯🔥
1. Create a white fill
2. Change the fill blend mode to Darken/Multiply
3. Optional: create a style “Transparent”
1% or 0.01% opacity trick is dead! 💀 pic.twitter.com/U63DVuvTNQ
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.
💡Figma Tip: Start Using Component Properties
— Molly Hellmuth (@molly_hellmuth) June 1, 2022
Component Properties were Figma’s biggest release at Config2022. They’re shaking up how components should be built on a foundational level, in a big/great way!
Keep reading for 5 step-by-step examples on how and when to use them.. pic.twitter.com/o967PIedl1
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.
I'm so happy that @figma finally allows for negative values within Auto Layout containers, which make card layouts, like those within iOS's Wallet app, really easy to create! ↔️ pic.twitter.com/InlupvM3Op
— Joey Banks (@joeyabanks) May 24, 2022