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UFO game

Pablo Stanley explains how to create a simple UFO game.

Side-scrolling “game” of a UFO that flies over the city using component interactions in @figmadesign. It moves ⬆️ and ⬇️ with the arrow keys and shoots lasers with a spacebar 🛸

(the vid doesn't explain the lasers cuz of twitter's time limits)

File: https://t.co/DwdyVEpeVy pic.twitter.com/EktLFyd0ha
— Pablo Stanley (@pablostanley) March 6, 2021

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Mar 14, 2021
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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.

Quick #FigmaTip for y'all. Ever want to design zoomed in AND preview the design at 100% at the same time?

1. Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + N to create a new desktop app window
2. Cmd/Ctrl + . to hide the UI on your preview window
3. Arrange your windows

Happy designing/previewing! pic.twitter.com/Bu33RLy0vG
— ˗ˏˋrogieˎˊ (@rogie) March 3, 2021

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Mar 14, 2021
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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.

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Mar 14, 2021
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Interactive Illustration in Figma

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

Using “Set Default Properties”

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

Super Quick Bonus @figmadesign #FigmaTip Friday ... "Set Default Properties" to keep your diagram arrows going as you want them styled —great for working on the fly a little faster. pic.twitter.com/YPQGpP4w5L
— miggi from figgi (@miggi) February 19, 2021

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Feb 28, 2021
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Luis Ouriach — Design Advocate at Figma

An interview with Luis about working remotely and what it’s like to be a design advocate at Figma.

Issue #34
Feb 28, 2021
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Figma Tips: Adding a glass effect to your designs

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

Segmented Control component

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

Using Auto Layout, Variants, and hidden layers to create a Segmented Control component in @figmadesign. 🎛↔️ pic.twitter.com/U53IPDcLay
— Joey Banks (@joeyabanks) February 17, 2021

Toggle Switch

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

Creating my very first set of interactive components in @figmadesign. 🔥🎛️ pic.twitter.com/apIht8EpFb
— Joey Banks (@joeyabanks) February 26, 2021

Criss-Cross Game

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

Interactive Components in Figma bring so much potential for prototyping interactions.

Sign up for the beta here! https://t.co/d4xztICaFA

This is one frame 👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/XKmgEr4FKj
— miggi from figgi (@miggi) February 25, 2021

Creating overlapping animations

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

Hi everyone! Wanted to share something I'm excited for w/ interactive components in @figmadesign, overlapping animation!

Here I have three different interactive components using delay interactions to make bouncing circles with different timings. Let me know what you think! pic.twitter.com/xg6Dy3zmCP
— miggi from figgi (@miggi) February 26, 2021

Why Interactive Components are important for design system teams

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

Interactive components are here my friends.

Here's a quick run through of what they mean and also why it's important for design systems teams.

🍜

Sign up for the beta here: https://t.co/PYXoKapYVL pic.twitter.com/dZdqJ1fhDd
— luis. (@disco_lu) February 25, 2021

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.”

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Feb 28, 2021
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List of objects beneath your cursor

A good tip from Miguel – Command-Click on an object to show a list of all layers below.

Here is a micro #FigmaTip for your hump-day! Easily select something in @figmadesign by holding ⌘ (Mac) or Ctrl (Win) when you right-click. This will pull up a list of objects directly beneath your cursor.

This is where naming your layers pays back dividends! 😊 pic.twitter.com/t4RNeGW9w7
— miggi from figgi (@miggi) February 10, 2021

Coffee with Charli: The 80/20 rule

“In this episode, Charli talks sits down with Ashley Seto, lead product designer lead at Pinterest. Together they dig into what it takes to govern a design system and the systems and process in place that can help get everyone on board.”

Coffee with Charli and Pinterest: The 80/20 rule

Coffee with Charli: Jumpstart your design system

“In this episode, Charli talks with her colleague Alf Salib, product design lead at ConvertKit. Together they dig into what it takes to implement a design system with a small team and get real about the challenges and lessons learned along the way.”

Coffee with Charli and Convertkit: Jumpstart your

How to make a “Question Mark” icon

In this follow-up to a previous question, Steve Schoger shows his process for building one of the icons in Heroicons set.

How to make a “Question Mark” icon in @figmadesign.

🧵 thread 👇 pic.twitter.com/TV642bjec5
— Steve Schoger (@steveschoger) February 8, 2021

How do you create just a dot?

Steve Schoger looks for the best way to create a dot that responds to the stroke width. There are some creative solutions in the replies, but making a rectangle with width and height set to 0.001 is the best one.

How do you create just a dot in @figmadesign?

Every time I try to create one by drawing a point with the pen tool it doesn't get recognized as a shape and disappears.

I managed to create one once but I forget how and I've just been copy/pasting the same one ever since 😅 pic.twitter.com/11LdpcCPG0
— Steve Schoger (@steveschoger) February 6, 2021

Tackling Figma Auto Layout: A 6-Step Guide

A new tutorial from Blush, based on Pablo Stanley’s Figma Crash Course on YouTube. “Learn the basics of Figma’s new Auto Layout and speed up your creative workflow with this awesome feature.”

Sort on Canvas by Name

Handy tiny plugin by Gleb Sabirzyanov.

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