In this episode, Charli Marie talks to Remilla (Senior Brand Designer) and Damien (Creative Director) from Figma’s Brand Studio team about how they enable anyone in the company to create brand assets in Figma while still maintaining quality and consistency.

Jan Toman wrote a guide for using Figma branches to improve the reliability of UI components. His approach of always using branches for design system contributions and creating a set of visual regression tests is similar to the best practices in the development world and should really help with making a design system more robust.

A practical walkthrough by Ridd of how you can use slot components to build a scalable system in Figma that is efficient and flexible.

One of the best profiles of the early days of Figma and Dylan Field’s transformation from intern to CEO.

The latest episode of the Distributed podcast pairs Dylan, Figma’s CEO and Co-founder, and guest host Connie Yang, Head of Payments Design at Stripe, with past design leadership posts at Coinbase and Facebook.

“Complete annotated TypeScript source code for a Figma plugin built using the Create Figma Plugin toolkit and monetized via Gumroad license keys.” Fantastic starter kit if you want to monetize a plugin.

Rogie made a new plugin for playing a prototype while editing it. Because the plugin accesses the file id, it has to be installed locally. (I usually just open a prototype in a new app window while working on it.)

Joey Banks with a tip on indicating component or layer status through naming.

Friends of Figma community is moving from Slack to Discord. If you haven’t joined before, now is the time!

Ridd shares his approach to organizing files in Figma.

Good list of ten very different free icon packs.

Molly shares a few takeaways from recreating a responsive Asana dashboard in Figma.

Tom Lowry gives a walkthrough of some of the new commenting improvements and enhancements.

Noah Levin came up with six quick automations in just a few hours.

Jan Toman with a thread of different ways this plugin can be used to automate routine operations of maintaining a design library, removing the need to use checklists, and increasing consistency along the way.

Ridd shows how he automated a repetitive part of his workflow with Automator.

Jordan Singer on why he is building Automator, a general purpose tool to automate Figma. Its private beta was all the rage last week — see a few creative ways to use it below.

Toni Gemayel’s project intended to help Figmates create their profiles in the Community.

The indispensable project brought to us by Toni Gemayel and Georgia Lee.

Cool FigJam widgets made by Bersabel Tadesse and Noah Levin. Hope they’ll be published one day!