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iOS 15 UI Kit for Figma

The best iOS 15 UI kit by ex-Figmate Joey Banks.

Luca

A beautiful illustration of Pixar’s Luca by Vijay Verma.

Hiring whole teams and Figma Designer Advocates with Anthony DiSpezio

“How do product teams hire UX Designers? Anthony DiSpezio, Designer Advocate at Figma, explains the most significant factor in cross-functional team hiring and how this may very well be why you are not hired. In the second part of the episode, Anthony describes the role of Designer Advocate at Figma: a mix of hands-on design and advocacy. To be hired for this role, you need to be a Figma expert with a knack for communication!”

Hide or show the dot grid

Miguel with a nifty tip. (Makes me curious why it’s not in the menu?)

#FigJam Protip: Easily hide or show the dot grid with 'Command + /" and type "Show Dot Grid" to turn the dot grid on and off.

(Command + P on international keyboards)
(Ctrl + / or Ctrl +P) on Windows) @figmadesign pic.twitter.com/INjWcprr2L
— miggi from figgi (@miggi) June 8, 2021

Create Figma Plugin

Yuan Qing Lim – one of the most prolific creators of Figma plugins – released v1 of his open-source toolkit for developing plugins. It comes with an optimized development workflow, maintainable code structure, utility functions, and even essential Figma UI components.

Excited to ship v1 of Create Figma Plugin, my open-source toolkit for developing @FigmaPlugins!

🤯 Sub-second build times
😌 Separate commands in separate files
🤓 Utility functions
😎 Components that replicate the Figma UIhttps://t.co/m8G9UqS5gs

👇 More info in the thread.
— Yuan Qing Lim (@yuanqinglim) May 19, 2021

Creating an illustration system for comics series

Pablo Stanley shows his use of Figma components and variants for creating an illustration system of characters for a new comics series, The Design Team.

Creating an illustration system for a new comics series using @figmadesign

I’ll make the doodles available as open source and on @blushdesignapp later.

Follow the IG account to read the comics when they’re out https://t.co/9udNJXghdF pic.twitter.com/R4CIUKhRdr
— Pablo Stanley (@pablostanley) May 29, 2021

Interactive Components in Figma

MDS takes a look at interactive components (currently in beta) — what they are, how they work, and the different ways they can be used in prototypes.

Advanced Interactive Components in Figma

In the follow-up to a previous video, MDS builds a prototype with multiple radio button interactive components.

Making a sunburst graphic

Miggi makes a sunburst graphic and puts a bird on it. Don’t miss part two, where he explores a totally different and quite creative way to build it with a stroke.

Make a sunburst graphic (and put a bird on it) in @figmadesign with #ProfessorFigma #figmatip pic.twitter.com/GvIPJw9bgN
— miggi from figgi (@miggi) May 26, 2021

Variable Fonts

Toni Gemayel built a plugin providing basic support for variable fonts. While not a replacement for missing native support, it lets you render variable fonts as graphics and then update them in the future.

A few things I wish I had known earlier on for working in Figma

Joey Banks shares a few helpful shortcuts and tips.

A few things I wish I had known earlier on for working in @figmadesign—I hope one or more of these can be helpful to someone out there! 🙏

1) Hold ⌘ + drag a frame to resize it to ignore any of the constraints set for the items inside. ↔️
— Joey Banks (@joeyabanks) May 12, 2021

Styler

Styler is a plugin for Figma that generates styles based on selected layers. See the “Batch create Figma styles“ video above for a quick demo from Figma Designer Advocate Luis.

Figma Tips

Designer Advocate Rogie built a plugin that helps you up your design game in Figma by watching short tutorial videos from the official YouTube channel.

Setting file thumbnails with FigJam

Miguel shows how to add file thumbnails from Figma to FigJam files.

Setting thumbnails with FigJam with Professor Figma, let’s go! #figjam @figmadesign #figtoks #figmatips #professorfigma pic.twitter.com/gRRTAFFuPG
— miggi from figgi (@miggi) May 11, 2021

Move Components Between Files — Master Plugin for Figma

Gleb Sabirzyanov shows how to move components between files using his Master plugin.

Professor Figma videos

Miguel took over Figma’s Instagram account for a day and shared a bunch of quick tutorials.

Yesterday I took over @figmadesign's instagram with some Professor Figma 1:1 aspect ratio videos. Here is a thread of them since many of you cannot watch them without an IG account. Enjoy:

1. Making a Gear Icon: pic.twitter.com/shbZwSO5VE
— miggi from figgi (@miggi) May 18, 2021

Issue #40
May 23, 2021
#Miguel Cardona

Multiple prototype tabs in the desktop app

No need to use Chrome for comparing prototypes between pages anymore!

Hey, guess what?

You can now open multiple prototypes from different pages at the same time on the desktop app.

Get noodlin' 🍜 pic.twitter.com/3yB56vo1Sx
— luis. (@disco_lu) April 26, 2021

Figma tips: Building flexible components using the “slot” method

Designer Advocate Luis: “We often find ourselves creating lots of different variations of similar components, this can be tedious and difficult to maintain. Using a technique called “slots”, we can swap out components very easily from a single component.”

Creating design system tools for non-designers

In this episode of “Coffee with Charli”, she talks with Ramy Majouji, product design lead at Glossier. Together they show off some unique ways Glossier uses their design system to create tools for folks outside of product design.

Coffee with Charli and Glossier: Creating design

Double-clicking on the edge of a text box

Joey Banks on a shortcut to set a text block resizing mode.

Many of us may already know this shortcut, but just wanted to share in case it's helpful for any designer who's newer to @figmadesign! Double clicking on the edge of a text box will quickly allow you to set its size to be Auto Width, saving you a few seconds of work each time. ↔️ pic.twitter.com/PBUN8oLySE
— Joey Banks (@joeyabanks) May 4, 2021

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