Useful keyboard shortcut to keep in mind!

A small timesaver if you’re designing in the browser.

“Join Designer Advocates Joey and Rogie as they dive into components: see them leverage constraints, apply auto-layout, explore negative frame spacing, styles, and more.”

In case you missed some textures lately.

See also his Figma file.

Joey Banks built this whole kit before some people even watched a keynote! Awesome work and incredibly useful for anyone designing for iOS.

“At Early Stage, we’ll talk to Field about staying patient during the product development process and then transitioning into an insane growth sprint. We’ll also chat about the fundraising process, how he built a team from scratch, and how he took the team remote in the midst of a pandemic, as well as chatting about the product development strategy behind Figma.”

Next, Dylan pitches his company to Daniel Gross as if back in 2013. Ten minutes of mind-bending WebGL and JS demos.

Dylan Field shares how he and Evan Wallace came up with the idea for Figma. In the first part, he shares his original pitch in the Thiel Fellowship application from 2011.

Gleb Sabirzyanov shares his starter kit for creating your own design system. It includes inputs, buttons, tags, dropdowns, tabs, type, color, etc. He also wrote a Twitter thread on how he used his Master plugin for building it.

Pavel Laptev shares the experience of using a design system approach in Alteos, including how they use Figma API to share design tokens with code.

When you don’t use an Auto Layout, a Drop Shadow with blur set to zero may be a nice alternative.

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.