Another drawing challenge from Miguel. Love the simplicity of his approach and how well the icon has turned out. 

How would you create a spiral in Figma without any external tools? Miggi’s answer is in the thread, but some of the solutions from others are really smart and creative too!

Joey Banks talks about his approach to organizing and naming in Figma.

Bruno Figueiredo talks to Miguel Cardona about his journey to the world of design, work at Figma, and design education.

An official Community resource for the popular Automator plugin. Explore automations made by the community and remix them to work best for you.

Fons Mans recreated the latest designs from Apple, Instagram, and Shopify in Figma. Great educational resource.

Super useful tip from Miguel — use Option‑W/​A/​S/​D shortcuts (which you may know from gaming) to align elements or points in vector networks. The latter is going to be a massive time-saver for me!

Miggi shows his process of writing in small chunks using FigJam. Love how flexible and multi-faceted this product is!

A curated list of automations for Jordan Singer’s popular Automator plugin.

Yet another great tutorial breaking down the process of creating an artwork by Fons Mans.

Automator – the most discussed plugin lately – is now available to the public. For a limited time, it’s $29 per year for personal use. See Issue #52 for some examples of what it can do.

A really detailed guide by Molly Hellmuth on spacing and layout grid best practices based on Material Design, Bootstrap, and Figma.

Fons Mans started publishing step-by-step tutorials for creating some of his artworks. See also a couple of other — one and two.

Joey Banks shared a change in his approach to base components earlier this month on Twitter, and now goes into more details in his newsletter. I often end up with too much complexity because of over-reliance on base components, so this is a piece of welcome advice.

Great stories and reflections from Marcin Wichary on bugs in software. ​“At Figma, there are many processes and tools to deal with bugs, including recurring Quality Weeks: time dedicated to coming together within a product team, and to fixing bugs that might otherwise get forgotten by time, bugs that deserve extra investigation, and bugs that stretch the traditional definition of bugs.”

This reminded me of another great post, ​“Debugging Misadventures: Down the Rabbit Hole”, by ex-Figma engineer Jamie Wong that I shared a while ago.

Anthony DiSpezio goes deep on hexagons, and this has absolutely nothing to do with Twitter or NFTs.

Zander shows a few copy-paste features that Figma released back in October.

Jan Toman prepared a small file covers kit with several styles and unique waves-like artwork for each color. He also shared a few principles behind them.

Fons Mans published a Community file with one of his visual experiments using gradients and shadows to get a retro 3D effect.

Luis explores a few approaches to layer naming based on a level of fidelity, team conventions, and who is responsible for this work.