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Accessible Design for a Remote World: In Conversation w/Dylan Field of Figma

“Last month, South Park Commons community hosted Figma CEO and cofounder Dylan Field for a virtual fireside chat. In this conversation, Dylan walked us through Figma’s inception, building into a growing design market, and what it was like staying in stealth for years. Read on for snippets from the fireside chat at South Park Commons.”

Using Interactive Components & Variants to Create a Segmented Control

Joey Banks with a quick demo.

He Sold a Digital CryptoPunk for $7.5 Million. Now Figma CEO Dylan Field Is Ready to Move Into the Metaverse.

Forbes writes about Dylan Field’s NFTs collection and sale of CryptoPunk. See also Dylan’s own statement on the sale.

Design and preview at the same time

Great tip from Rogie on designing zoomed-in and previewing work in actual size at the same time.

Bringing Design Online, with Figma Co-Founder/CEO Dylan Field

In this episode of The Ones Who Succeed podcast, Campbell Baron talks to Dylan Field about his experience dropping out of University and becoming a Theil Fellow, raising 4 million dollars at 19 to start Figma, and lessons learned as the CEO of a design Unicorn.

UFO game

Pablo Stanley explains how to create a simple UFO game.

Interactive Illustration in Figma

Pablo’s live stream on creating an animated illustration in Figma.
Interactive Illustration in Figma

Before and after Interactive Components

Speaking of switches, check out this comparison of before vs. after by Joey Banks.

Creating a switch

Quick demo of using Interactive Components with Smart Animate by Pablo Stanley.
Interactive Components in Figma

Creating a pixel art grid

Pablo Stanley builds a simple pixel art editor. (And here is another take with a color picker.)

Office Hours: Get started with Interactive Components

Check out Figma’s office hours to get an Interactive Components demo and learn tips and tricks.
Office Hours: Get started with interactive

A list of cool things made with Interactive Components

Rogie compiled a giant list of cool demos and experiments.

Introducing Comments to Figma Community

“Now, you can communicate with fellow creators in the Figma Community via comments. Give in-context feedback on files. Suggest feature ideas for plugins. Ask a fellow creator how they did something. Or, simply share some love.”

Why Interactive Components are important for design system teams

See how Interactive Components can dramatically reduce the number of connections you create.

Creating overlapping animations

Miguel shows how to create bouncing circles animation with different timings.

Criss-Cross Game

Miguel builds a criss-cross game with a single frame and Interactive Components.

Toggle Switch

Joey Banks creates a toggle switch as his first set of Interactive Components.

Segmented Control component

Joey Banks build a Segmented Control component using Auto Layout, Variants, and hidden layers.

Using “Set Default Properties”

Miguel shows how to use ​“Set Default Properties” preference to style your new diagram arrows.

Figma Tips: Adding a glass effect to your designs

Luis shows how to create a cool glass effect using a Morph plugin.
Adding a glass effect to your designs

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