#Community
Automating all the things
Ridd shows how he automated a repetitive part of his workflow with Automator.
Automating Figma
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.
Community 101
Toni Gemayel’s project intended to help Figmates create their profiles in the Community.
Figma Memes
The indispensable project brought to us by Toni Gemayel and Georgia Lee.
Jam Kit and Pixel Art Maker
Cool FigJam widgets made by Bersabel Tadesse and Noah Levin. Hope they’ll be published one day!
for @figmadesign's maker week this week, I helped facilitate 80+ Figmates learning how to build widgets, and worked with @nlevin to build a pixel art maker & drum pad widget. You can learn how to build widgets too! https://t.co/BaEqmvBnaX
— bersabel (@brsabel) November 5, 2021
Back to real work next week 🥲 pic.twitter.com/7dzMyVysuM
The story of design systems analytics
A peek behind the scenes of how Noah Levin created the first take on design system analytics (now available on Orgs plan) during one of the past Maker Weeks.
1/ Many of the features found in Figma today started as Maker Week projects. One of our favorites is a project led by @nlevin– design systems analytics.
— Figma (@figmadesign) November 3, 2021
It started as a request from a user who wanted an easy way to gauge the overall health of their company’s design system.🧵 pic.twitter.com/7aeCQnqoh1
Figmaverse
The theme of this Maker Week is Figmaverse, and Anthony DiSpezio created beautiful branding and design system. To the moon!
It’s Maker Week at Figma!
— Figma (@figmadesign) November 2, 2021
Twice a year, the entire company is invited to pause day-to-day work and come together for a week of innovation.
This week's theme is Figmaverse (not related to the metaverse). Here’s how @adispezio brought our out-of-this-world branding to life🚀 pic.twitter.com/UKxmhQ88Zz
Making Magic Potions in Figma
Breakdown of using Figma to illustrate and animate Vijay’s first NFT.
Making Magic Potions in @figmadesign. Here is a sneak peek of my first NFT collection @magikpotions, which I'm working on. illustrated and animated purely in Figma. Yes, we can create animation in Figma as well. Breakdown below 🧵 pic.twitter.com/LRHF7SChC4
— vijay vΞrma (@realvjy) November 6, 2021
Fun with an infinity symbol
Miggi created a single-point infinity sign, then Vijay came up with a cool animation. Team work 🙌
Level up your designs with UI Kits, design systems, and more
Femke shares some of her favorite educational resources, UI kits, and design systems for Figma.
Using Interactive Components as the first step in the process
Ridd shows an unconventional approach of using Interactive Components from the very beginning of the design process. Also, love his tip on using a second Figma window for the real-size preview!
Interactive components are my favorite @figmadesign feature.
— Ridd 🏛 (@Ridderingand) November 13, 2021
So why wait to use them until the end?
They're even more powerful as the very first step in the process!
Here's how I use them to explore new ideas 👇 pic.twitter.com/zir1RzgF2i
Todo list with Interactive Components
Joey Banks creates a simple todo list using Interactive Components, start to finish in 1 minute.
Designing with Interactive Components in @figmadesign, from start to finish 🔁: pic.twitter.com/4NuWZl3ES8
— Joey Banks (@joeyabanks) November 3, 2021
Why designers should move from px to rem — and how to do that in Figma
Great article by Christine Vallaure on improving accessibility by using relative font sizes in CSS, and how to work around pixel-based sizes in Figma. While I always use a combination of rem and em units, I wasn’t familiar with the 62.5% CSS hack or that units can be switched during hand-off in Zeplin. Very cool!
Rogie King at DesignOps Island Discs Podcast
“From community-driven design process improvements to the world of plugins and the future of design tools, we talk to Rogie King, Designer Advocate at Figma, about the power of community.”
Index Creator Summit: Why is everyone talking about creators?
“Why is everyone talking about creators? Jack Conte, co-founder of Patreon, and Dylan Field, co-founder of Figma, discuss the creator phenomenon with Danny Rimer at the Index Creator Summit.”
Championing Low-Ego Leadership at Figma
“In this episode of Uniquely Led, Dylan Field, CEO & co-founder of Figma, shares his journey of going from intern to CEO at the age of 20, discovering the difference between leadership and management, and the importance of being a low-ego leader. He discusses Figma’s culture of growth, which focuses on bringing in amazing people and ensuring they achieve their full potential.”
macOS Monterey UI Kit for Figma
New UI Kit from Joey Banks for the latest version of macOS. Like all other kits by Joey, this one is spectacular and incredibly well done.
Paint
A new plugin from Gleb Sabirzyanov for getting custom colors from Figma to FigJam.
Automator
Jordan Singer shows some of the automations in his AI tool. Looks amazing, and you can join the waitlist at his website.
Here's a thread on some of the automations I've put together in Automator from @tricycleai ranging from simple to complex 👇 pic.twitter.com/NSUpMVwAmu
— Jordan Singer (@jsngr) October 23, 2021
Add the component name to the component description
A nice tip to UI kit maintainers from Jan Toman.
💡 A small usability tip for @figmadesign UI kit maintainers:
— Jan Toman (@HonzaTmn) October 15, 2021
Add the component name to the component description. It's especially useful when the component name is longer than ~10 characters. pic.twitter.com/gawuvNle6X