“Figma’s Designer Advocate Luis Ouriach has been collecting your questions in chat and online. He’ll dig in with our speakers to tackle design systems questions big and small.”

Jan Toman, Productboard. ​“Not sure where to start? Get your libraries off the ground by learning how to craft UI kits that designers will love using. We’ll dive into building flexible components, aligning their API with code, and dealing with changes as the design system evolves.”

Sho Kuwamoto, Director of Product at Figma. ​“Join Sho as he kicks off our inaugural Schema conference with opening remarks. Tune in for his reflections on how design systems have grown and changed and how us system designers can help shape a better, more inclusive future.”

Branching is now available to teams on the Organization plan. It was announced in April at Config 2021, but according to Rasmus Andersson, it’s been in the making for 5 years. The lack of branches was the main issue when my team switched from Sketch and Abstract to Figma in 2018, so I hope it will become available on the Professional plan one day.

Figma’s Director of Product Sho Kuwamoto shares some of the challenges of building branching.

Ana Boyer on the best practices and strategies for collaborating in FigJam throughout the entire design process — from your first brainstorm to the final review.

Boolean groups + vector networks + rounded corners = magic! Don’t miss Miguel’s original thread, and check out where they brought it in the end 🤯

Miguel with a tip on setting up a lightweight baseline grid with Layout Grid.

Ridd shares great tips on how to make your designs more developer-friendly.

Learn how objects will position when using copy and paste in Figma.

Miguel is demonstrating the new copy and paste capabilities.

Cool plugin by Tom Quinonero for creating gradients through color spaces like LCH and ZYX with non-linear curves. There are so many cool use cases for color spaces like LCH — it’s a real pity that they’re not a standard part of Figma.

Luis talks to Santosh Komaragiri from Dataguard, who showed how they manage their Figma workspace. Their team has built some incredibly detailed product, marketing, and brand design systems which shows how you can take Figma to new levels of usage.

Tom Quinonero writes about a recently announced headless approach to building Figma plugins.

Anthony DiSpezio shares a fun experiment connecting pose detection and Figma plugin API.

Ridd shows how to use ​“slots”, placeholder components that are part of larger organisms or templates. They are intentionally empty so that they can be replaced with a local component.

Miguel Cardona shares four principles for facilitating collaborative design in the classroom from professor Christie Shin at The Fashion Institute of Technology.

Quick tips from Ana Boyer on how to use a Figma community file with the Batch Styler and Similayer plugins to quickly build a custom design system.

Ridd shares a detailed guide to building a customizable and flexible form component.

Interesting discussion about exporting assets with a Display P3 color space from Figma. I wasn’t familiar with Export PNG with Color Profile plugin (see below) or an option of assigning an ICC profile to the exported PDF.