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.

“Slots Components for Dummies” by Ridd, who is one of the biggest proponents of this approach. Great guide to one of Figma’s ultimate superpowers.

In his new newsletter, Joey Banks answers one of the popular questions — what’s the difference between groups and frames in Figma, and when should you use one over the other?

Cool (but creepy) character animation experiment by Miggi from Figgi.

As always, Vijay is pushing the limits of illustration possibilities in Figma. The new artwork from the Encanto movie has 2,500+ vectors and took him about 12 hours. Don’t miss the thread with some details.

A new plugin by Gleb for turning vector lines into pixel art.

Zander recommends three 3D libraries: Drawkit, Fall Guys, and Nikuu.

Zander Whitehurst shows how to animate a radio button supafast.

Great comparison of different techniques for customizing components by Ana Boyer. Playing with the examples instead of just reading about them makes all the difference.

Ana Boyer on a few ways to archive no-longer-needed mockups.

Rogie’s really cool short video shows his process and use of Figma features for creating Grim Syndicate NFTs.

Evan Wallace, Figma co-founder and CTO, announced that he left Figma last year. See also tweets by his co-founder Dylan Field and ex-engineer Jamie Wong. Evan is incredibly talented — I’m grateful for all he did for Figma and looking forward to seeing what he decides to do next.

Anthony DiSpezio with an ode to Auto Layout 👏

Joey Banks created a thumbnail template for files in Figma. ​“Easily add teammates’ avatars, custom fields and statuses, and instance swap between templates or themes.”

Ana Boyer shares four tips for illustrating in Figma.