Good advice on when to use a fill opacity vs. layer opacity.

Designer advocates Tom Lowry and Rogie King dive deep into some lesser-known capabilities of Figma’s prototyping tools.

I wrote about the illustration library and plugin Blush in the last issue. Now, Elsma Ramirez shares how she created The Munchies collection for it using a component-based approach.

Now you can follow people on Figma Community. In the Community section, you can switch the view from Popular to Following to see updates only from people you follow.

This is just a brilliant follow-up! Pay attention to tweets’ dates.

A keynote presentation by Yuhki Yamashita, VP of Product at Figma, on nine best practices for building trust, providing feedback, and creating unique value in the PM-designer relationship.

Figma’s Director of Product Sho Kuwamoto joined All Turtles podcast to talk about building Figma, seamless collaboration, and life in general.

Designer Advocates Joey Banks and Rogie King share resources they’ve found that help make remote work feel less remote.

That’s a really smart workaround to gather stats!

One of my favorite time-savers!

Rogie designs an app for discovering useful books for leveling up as a designer. In the first part of this 3 part series, he wireframes the ideas for the app. In Part 2, he works on visual design explorations.

Lots to learn from the founder of Design+Code.

Noah Levin built his first plugin for turning URLs into little cards. Great for organizing shopping inspiration and visually including relevant links to the project. Now waiting for their API to support links.

Noah Levin, Design Director at Figma, dives deep into their day-to-day operations — meeting cadences, rituals, and anything else that helps the design team stay connected and efficient.

Designer Advocates Tom Lowry and Rogie King talk about their favorite Figma plugins. Here is a list of all discussed plugins.

Great collection of tips and tricks from the community.

Figma’s Designer Advocate Rogie King continues streaming the process of designing a cocktail recipe app. This part focuses on typography, colors, and style, while Part 3 brings at all together with additional views, prototypes, and transitions.

Ramy Majouji, Product Designer at Glossier, and Joey Banks, Designer Advocate at Figma, show how they use Auto Layout and other features to speed workflows up.

Dylan Field: ​“Today, I’m excited to share that Figma has raised a $50M Series D round of funding, led by Peter Levine and Marc Andreessen at a16z.”

Nice update. Duplicating files just to see what’s inside was quite annoying.