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Dylan Field – The Growing Importance of Design

One more podcast episode with Dylan, this time in ​“Founder’s Field Guide”. This one covers the principles that Figma is built upon, the growing importance of design as the world moves from consumption to creation, and what it takes to recruit effectively.

Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces

A new ​“The Twenty Minute VC” podcast episode with Dylan Field.

Love Triangle

Great skit by Pablo Stanley that made rounds in the community. Love how both Figma and Sketch played along and changed their names on Twitter for a while!

Four competing “houses”

Dylan Field introduces four ​“houses” on Day 1 of Figma’s biannual Maker Week.

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.”

One Hundred Patterns

Toni Gemayel runs an open design experiment to collaboratively create 100 patterns.

The Child / Baby Yoda

Another incredible illustration by Joey Lamelas.

Animate Angular gradient strokes

And another tip from Miguel for making simple animated spinners.

Hiding only Layers panel

Miguel Cardona with a good tip: use Cmd-Shift-\ to hide the Layers panel, and Cmd-\ to hide both panels when sharing a screen.

Figma in 5: Auto Layout

A new video in Rogie’s short video series.
Figma in 5: Auto Layout

Figma’s Auto Layout

Pablo Stanley released the first chapter of his Figma Crash course with five videos on Auto Layout.

Creating and Using Variants in Figma

A new video by MDS.
Creating and Using VARIANTS in Figma

Using ScrollTo Interactions to traverse spaces

As soon as Figma releases something new, Miguel Cardona comes up with a great use case.

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

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