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Four years ago today, Figma launched publicly for the first time

Did you know it was Figma’s birthday last week? I remember trying it around that time and not being impressed, but they’ve been shipping improvements and new features so fast that just in a couple years I switched completely.

Here’s how the CEO of Figma went from a computer science intern to the head of a $2 billion company that’s challenging Adobe for the love of designers across Silicon Valley

A great in-depth profile of Dylan Field at Business Insider.

Config Europe 2020 – Keynote Highlights, Dylan Field

If you didn’t have a chance to watch the full keynote yet, this is a short 6‑minute long video with main highlights.

Config Europe 2020 - Keynote Highlights, Dylan

Level Up Your Design Documentation With a Design Deck

A new video and free Figma template from Femke. ​“Impactful designers are great at communicating design decisions and documenting design process. This is the deck to level up your communication and documentation process.”

Level up your design documentation with a Design

Setting and maintaining consistent space between items with the new Auto Layout

Designer Advocate Joey Banks shows a preview of what’s coming in November. Can’t wait!

GIF

A plugin by Rogie to play GIF animations in the editor (!), make memes, and export animated GIFs straight from Figma.

When Fonts Fall

Marcin Wichary digs into how font fallback works. As always, his post is a deep dive into the topic. Highly recommend!

Fun with Rotational Symmetry

Miguel Cardona shows how to use components and instances to create some cool illustrative effects.

a16z Podcast: The Question of Education

Dylan Field talking to Marc Andreessen about the modern education system. The Q&A was recorded in August 2020 and originally appeared in Figma’s ​“Back to School?” interview series.

Figma’s new EMEA HQ

Dylan Field: ​”Today, I’m excited to announce that Figma is opening a hub office in London, which will serve as our HQ for the EMEA region.”

Rasmus Andersson on Figma

Rasmus joined Figma in 2016 as a Lead Designer and one of the early employees. He just left the company, and in this post looks back at what he worked on over the years.

Interface Design PRO-TIPS inside Figma

MDS designs a quick concept of the would-be iOS app inside of Figma.
Interface Design PRO-TIPS inside Figma

“Figma isn’t for illustrati…”

Fun Twitter thread by Rogie with fantastic examples of illustrations made in Figma.

Excited about creating variants?

Luis shows how converting the whole GitHub Primer buttons library to variants took less than a minute.

Embracing the tension between code and design

Announcements from the above keynote, presented as a blog post. ​“We believe in embracing concepts from engineering and design, adopting the rigor and reusability of code while preserving the rapid iteration and uninhibited exploration that makes visual design so powerful. […] When code and design components mirror each other, teams can move much more efficiently. Today, we announced Variants, Interactive Components, and improvements to Auto Layout that will allow teams to do just that.”

Keynote, Dylan Field – Embracing the tension between design and code

Watch Dylan Field, CEO of Figma, talk about Figma in Europe and demo new design systems features.
Config Europe 2020 - Keynote, Dylan Field -

Figma Community: the Github for designers

“An appreciation piece on how well-modeled the Figma Community feature is and how it can possibly change the way the world designs digitally.”

Demo of Vector Networks

Miguel Cardona shows how cool and powerful Vector Networks are. The vector editing toolset in Figma is unique and worth getting familiar with.

Community Spotlight: Design Starter Kits

Three Figma community resources to get you started on your next web, iOS, or Android design project. Hope Community Spotlight will become regular series!
Community Spotlight: Design Starter Kits

Office Hours: Complex Component Architecture

Rogie and Joey talk about best practices for building cards, dialogs, navigations, forms, and other forms of complex components.
Office Hours: Complex Component Architecture

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