“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.

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.