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Meet us in the browser

Great essay by Dylan Field on their decision to build Figma in the browser. ​“Initially I didn’t understand the negative reactions to Figma’s closed beta launch. I only saw the obvious benefits: a single source of truth for files, cross platform support, and multiplayer editing. Now I understand that the power of the browser lies in the broader cultural change it delivers — and this change can be scary. The browser is natively multiplayer. It forces a mindset shift on access. It strips away the need for expensive hardware. And it pushes us to embrace working together, especially when we are blocked and our default might be to hide.”

Office Hours: Auto Layout

Designer Advocates Rogie King and Anthony DiSpezio show how the updated Auto Layout works, discuss the best practices, and answer questions from the audience.
Office Hours: Auto layout

How Auto Layout works with child layers

Rogie explains hug, fixed, and fill resizing options. The demo of building a to-do list and a table with Auto Layout is really impressive!

Two ways to size and distribute spacing

Tom Lowry shows how resizing and distributing spacing (Packed vs. Space Between) works.

Animating new Auto Layout options

Miguel Cardona shows how the ​“Fill container” resizing option can be animated.

Magic Layout concept

A plugin concept by Jordan Singer for automatically applying Auto Layout constraints and resizing.

Figma Crash

A new course with deep dives into powerful Figma features by Pablo Stanley, creator of a popular collection of illustrations Blush. The first chapter on Auto Layout will be available on December 1st.

Figma in 5: Vectors I

New video series from Rogie, where he explores a single topic in just five minutes. The signal to noise ratio is really high, so everyone will learn something. He kicks off the series with vector shapes, but don’t miss Part 2, where he covers vector editing tools.

Figma in 5: Vectors I

DesignKit

DesignKit by Rafal Tomal is an all-in-one wireframe kit, style guide, and design starter template.

Geometric Shapes

Cool patterns and face mask by Toni Gemayel.

Rogie: 3 new features to ease communication with your developers

Rogie demonstrates a few recent improvements to the Inspect tab.

24: Noah Levin | Collaboration is at the Core of Exceptional Design

And another interview with Noah, this time at Things Have Changed podcast. ​“We talk about Noah’s early passion for design, his varied design experiences, joining Figma and building the highly talented teams making design accessible to everyone!”

Design tools with Noah Levin

Noah Levin, the Director of Design at Figma, interviewed at Cells & Pixels podcast.

Figma for Education: Equipping Designers of Learning Experiences

An interview with Miguel Cardona, an Assistant Professor at RIT teaching New Media Design, on designing learning experiences in Figma.

Using Figma Community resources to design for Android efficiently

A design team at Mono took a dive into the Figma Community to look for high-quality Material Design and Android UI kits. They also show how to bring together components from all these kits into a project library. (Speaking of Mono, check out their free resources in the Community.)

Anima

Anima has announced the launch of version 4.0, which will allow designers to create prototypes in Figma that are translated into components in React with the click of a button. See an article on TechCrunch or watch an overview by Femke.

Creating and Organizing Variants

Best practices for creating and organizing Variants by Figma Designer Advocate Anthony DiSpezio.

Joey Banks: Generate a toggle for the Variants

Setting the value of a property to be either true/​false, yes/​no, or on/​off will generate a toggle in the side panel to make it even easier to switch between options.

Nikolas Klein: Extending preserved overrides

Figma will now preserve all supported overrides, including overrides to fill and stroke properties, and blur or shadow effects. This Twitter thread provides some context on how the new implementation works with text overrides.

Super Variant Bros

This project was included in the last issue, but now Joey added more Mario characters and Variants support. Super fun to play with.

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