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“Figma isn’t for illustrati…”

Fun Twitter thread by Rogie with fantastic examples of illustrations made in Figma.

Interface Design PRO-TIPS inside Figma

MDS designs a quick concept of the would-be iOS app inside of Figma.
Interface Design PRO-TIPS inside Figma

Rasmus Andersson on Figma

Rasmus joined Figma in 2016 as a Lead Designer and one of the early employees. He just left the company, and in this post looks back at what he worked on over the years.

Figma’s new EMEA HQ

Dylan Field: ​”Today, I’m excited to announce that Figma is opening a hub office in London, which will serve as our HQ for the EMEA region.”

a16z Podcast: The Question of Education

Dylan Field talking to Marc Andreessen about the modern education system. The Q&A was recorded in August 2020 and originally appeared in Figma’s ​“Back to School?” interview series.

Fun with Rotational Symmetry

Miguel Cardona shows how to use components and instances to create some cool illustrative effects.

Build it in Figma: Create a Design System IV — Testing

Testing a design system to see if the component library is robust enough in real-world scenarios.
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Color Name

Ever wondered what’s the best name for that specific shade of the color? This plugin lets you select any node with a solid fill and see the closest color’s name.

Shape 2

A gorgeous library of fully customizable icons and illustrations from Meng To. Includes a custom app that lets you change style, stroke width, and size of the assets.

Build it in Figma: Create a Design System V — Documentation

Rogie shows the best practices for documenting your design system using Figma and other tools.
Build it in Figma: Create a Design System V:

Office Hours: Complex Component Architecture

Rogie and Joey talk about best practices for building cards, dialogs, navigations, forms, and other forms of complex components.
Office Hours: Complex Component Architecture

Community Spotlight: Design Starter Kits

Three Figma community resources to get you started on your next web, iOS, or Android design project. Hope Community Spotlight will become regular series!
Community Spotlight: Design Starter Kits

Demo of Vector Networks

Miguel Cardona shows how cool and powerful Vector Networks are. The vector editing toolset in Figma is unique and worth getting familiar with.

Figma Community: the Github for designers

“An appreciation piece on how well-modeled the Figma Community feature is and how it can possibly change the way the world designs digitally.”

Explore the Figma Community

Figma Community went out of beta, and over the last two weeks was rolled out to all users.

Anyone else using spacers in Figma’s Auto Layout?

Can’t wait to see what they’ve got!

Return to Instance after editing the Main Component

Meng To points to a useful feature that can be easy to miss.

How to add “native” Find functionality to Figma

Joel Califa suggests assigning a system shortcut to the Find & Replace plugin.

How to handoff your designs to Engineering

Femke shows her engineering handoff process at Uber Eats. Among other things, she adds a Handoff page to her files, breaks it down into work streams, uses templates to show flow statuses, and adds notes to document changes and implementation details.
How to handoff your designs to Engineering

macOS Big Sur UI Kit

Another fantastic resource by Joey Banks, who also recently built iOS & iPadOS 14 UI Kit.

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