Rogie’s really cool short video shows his process and use of Figma features for creating Grim Syndicate NFTs.
Artist @rogie gets under the hood of the Lurkers of the Abyss project showing off some of the cool @figmadesign functionality that we use to build daemons! pic.twitter.com/MIbIJSViSw
— Grim Syndicate (@Grim__Syndicate) December 16, 2021
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.
Before 2021 ends, I'd like to share some personal news: I left Figma earlier this year. Dylan and I started it together way back in 2012, and since then it's done better than I ever imagined it would. It was the ride of a lifetime.
— Evan Wallace (@evanwallace) December 28, 2021
Anthony DiSpezio with an ode to Auto Layout 👏
We recently had our variety show at @figmadesign. Submitted for your approval, my ode to auto layout :) pic.twitter.com/fEzWwZEk4q
— Anthony DiSpezio (@adispezio) December 13, 2021
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.
🧵Some fun Figma illustration things I learned from our DA team the other day:
— Ana Boyer (@_AnaBoyer) December 17, 2021
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.)
Ever wanted to play your prototypes while editing in @figmadesign? I made a little plugin for you! It's called "Prototype Preview", but it has to be installed as a local plugin (as it accesses the file id). Animation by @antimofm
— ˗ˏˋrogieˎˊ (@rogie) November 12, 2021
Here's the code for ya: https://t.co/8hXnuByi0W pic.twitter.com/FQx8F8UXEj
Joey Banks with a tip on indicating component or layer status through naming.
If you're creating components in Figma for others to use, adding emoji to component & layer names can really make a big difference!
— Joey Banks (@joeyabanks) November 18, 2021
✏️ = edit expected (helpful for labels)
🔄 = can instance swap (helpful for icons)
🚫 = component no longer supported
✨ = interactive component
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.
I'm constantly asked...
— Ridd 🏛 (@Ridderingand) November 26, 2021
"How do I organize my files?"
So here are my 7 goals for file organization in @figmadesign 👇 pic.twitter.com/NFuhHP3euu
Good list of ten very different free icon packs.
Molly shares a few takeaways from recreating a responsive Asana dashboard in Figma.
💡5 tips for designing a responsive dashboard in Figma
— Molly Hellmuth (@molly_hellmuth) November 23, 2021
Responsive design seems to be one of the trickier topics for my students so I made a project for them (Recreate the Asana Dashboard in Figma). Below are some of my favorite takeaways from the project. pic.twitter.com/RHtIRQnLIm
Tom Lowry gives a walkthrough of some of the new commenting improvements and enhancements.
So excited to give you all a walkthrough of some of the new commenting improvements and enhancements that we're starting to roll out to @figmadesign and FigJam. Let us know what you think! pic.twitter.com/ylmZSjWPjH
— Tom Lowry (@negativespaceca) November 17, 2021
Noah Levin came up with six quick automations in just a few hours.
So fun!!! I’ve made 6 automations so far in just a few hours this week. Here’s a bunch in one video — I love that they also work in FigJam! pic.twitter.com/87A3LcjuA4
— Noah Levin (@nlevin) November 4, 2021
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.
Finally found some time to play with Automator plugin from @tricycleai. This thing can replace so many checklists (!!!), helping us to scale a consistency in our whole Figma library. No matter who is contributing.
— Jan Toman (@HonzaTmn) November 6, 2021
🧵 Thread with examples ⤵️