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A quick chat on managing remote Design teams

A short interview with Noah Levin on the process within Figma’s Design Org.

The difference between using Packed & Space Between in Auto Layout

Joey Banks shows the difference between the two Auto Layout modes.

Bulleted and numbered lists

Use bullets and numbers to organize information, emphasize important details, or outline steps. Check out the video by Anthony DiSpezio with a quick demo. Hope you caught the fun lists launched as an April Fools joke!

Publish individual components

You can now select specific components to publish changes in your libraries. Miguel Cardona gives a quick demo in the video, and Figma’s Director of Product Sho Kuwamoto provides context behind this release.

Create new projects and files from the team browser

Miggi from Figma points to another small improvement shipped as part of this release.

Auto Layout order

Speaking of Auto Layout, this tweet by Rasmus Andersson (Figma’s Staff Designer in the past) and the following discussion in replies provides an interesting look into why the items in an Auto Layout go backward and why this probably won’t change soon.

Figma for Marketers #1

Luis shows how to use Figma for creating a quick Instagram post.

Individually copy and paste effects

A reminder about an essential feature from Joey Banks.

Accessible Design for a Remote World: In Conversation w/Dylan Field of Figma

“Last month, South Park Commons community hosted Figma CEO and cofounder Dylan Field for a virtual fireside chat. In this conversation, Dylan walked us through Figma’s inception, building into a growing design market, and what it was like staying in stealth for years. Read on for snippets from the fireside chat at South Park Commons.”

He Sold a Digital CryptoPunk for $7.5 Million. Now Figma CEO Dylan Field Is Ready to Move Into the Metaverse.

Forbes writes about Dylan Field’s NFTs collection and sale of CryptoPunk. See also Dylan’s own statement on the sale.

Using Interactive Components & Variants to Create a Segmented Control

Joey Banks with a quick demo.

A list of cool things made with Interactive Components

Rogie compiled a giant list of cool demos and experiments.

Office Hours: Get started with Interactive Components

Check out Figma’s office hours to get an Interactive Components demo and learn tips and tricks.
Office Hours: Get started with interactive

Creating a pixel art grid

Pablo Stanley builds a simple pixel art editor. (And here is another take with a color picker.)

Creating a switch

Quick demo of using Interactive Components with Smart Animate by Pablo Stanley.
Interactive Components in Figma

Before and after Interactive Components

Speaking of switches, check out this comparison of before vs. after by Joey Banks.

Interactive Illustration in Figma

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

UFO game

Pablo Stanley explains how to create a simple UFO game.

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.

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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