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Miguel Cardona: Duplicate line segments

Great tip! Other replies to Rogie’s original tweet are also worth checking out.

Figma DIY: Building a Color System Plugin

An epic blog post from Roman Shamin describes a better way of working with a dynamic color system and how to build an internal plugin that makes it possible.

Adding hover states

Rogie shows how to add a hover state and make nav component instances inherit all main component triggers.

Recreated (Fig)Mario

“Figma is not for illus… oh!” Beautiful work by @mrhammn.

Building a High-Growth Culture

A part of the conversation between Dylan Field and Andrew Reed from Sequoia.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

When Fonts Fall

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

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.
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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.”

Excited about creating variants?

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

Fun with Rotational Symmetry

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

“Figma isn’t for illustrati…”

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

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

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.

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.”

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