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What’s New in Figma

Figma’s VP of Product Yuhki Yamashita and special guests recap recent releases and give a few sneak peeks for what’s coming soon.

What's new in Figma

11 activities in Figma for your classroom

Miguel Cardona teaches New Media Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and shares some of the activities that he does with students in Figma.

Joey Banks: Using emoji when naming components

Make sure to check replies for more ideas.

Anthony DiSpezio: Hold space while dragging over (or inside) frames to preserve layer order

Another great but well-hidden feature.

Yuan Qing Lim: Introducing Figma Plugins Stats

Node.js command-line utility to get live and historical stats for your Figma plugins. Great tool for plugin authors.

Marcin Wichary: The process of building Selection Colors

Great thread from Design Manager at Figma on how one of its most unique features came to life, from the initial pitch to design challenges and decisions.

Office Hours: Let's Talk Teams with Designer Advocates Anthony DiSpezio and Rogie King

In this weekly Office Hours in Figma, Anthony DiSpezio and Rogie King are talking about team structure, multiple component libraries, versioning, and updating components at scale.

Office Hours: Let's talk teams

Enterprise Tech 30: Figma

Nasdaq speaks with Dylan Field after Figma was featured in Enterprise Tech 30 list.

@zyumbik: Creating a full circular progress bar animation

As always, Gleb comes up with an incredibly creative way to push Figma’s limits.

The UX of Figma plugins

Yuan Qing Lim shares ten heuristics for crafting plugins for Figma, based on his experience of building over a dozen of them.

An inside look at how Figma ships product

Yuhki Yamashita, VP of Product at Figma, gives an inside look at how they designed the fastest way to keep an entire company up-to-date on the roadmap using a Coda doc.

@zyumbik: Implement “real” typing in the prototype

Gleb got on the challenge of implementing typing in the prototype using overlays, keyboard triggers, GIFs, and some magic. Absolutely impractical but fun nonetheless!

@rogie: Better way to swap a component

Drag-n-drop from the Assets tab is a time-saver.

Figma CEO Dylan Field at Jason Calacanis’ Show “This Week in Startups”

Figma CEO & Co-Founder Dylan Field shares insights on crucial moments in Figma’s creation, overcoming SaaS burnout, active vs. passive user-pricing, getting Greylock and Sequoia to invest after they initially passed, and more.

E1040: Figma CEO Dylan Field on crucial moments in

Reconfig Slack Is Open to the Public

Figma opened their Config conference Slack workspace to the public.

Extend What’s Possible With Plugins for You and Your Team

Thomas Lowry, Designer Advocate at Figma, wrote a recap of a session at Config on building your own plugins to help you and your team work faster. Great examples and use cases from GitHub, Atlassian, and Uber.

DesignKit for Figma

Good looking and extensive starter template and wireframe kit.

Rogie King: Let’s build Style Guide Generator!

Designing an open-source project in the open.

Rasmus Andersson: Cooling down after a week of remote work with the amazing Editor engineers at Figma

Pretty cool to see all the unexpected use cases for Figma that teams are coming up with.

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