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Color Name

Ever wondered what’s the best name for that specific shade of the color? This plugin lets you select any node with a solid fill and see the closest color’s name.

Shape 2

A gorgeous library of fully customizable icons and illustrations from Meng To. Includes a custom app that lets you change style, stroke width, and size of the assets.

Explore the Figma Community

Figma Community went out of beta, and over the last two weeks was rolled out to all users.

Anyone else using spacers in Figma’s Auto Layout?

Can’t wait to see what they’ve got!

Return to Instance after editing the Main Component

Meng To points to a useful feature that can be easy to miss.

How to add “native” Find functionality to Figma

Joel Califa suggests assigning a system shortcut to the Find & Replace plugin.

How to handoff your designs to Engineering

Femke shows her engineering handoff process at Uber Eats. Among other things, she adds a Handoff page to her files, breaks it down into work streams, uses templates to show flow statuses, and adds notes to document changes and implementation details.
How to handoff your designs to Engineering

macOS Big Sur UI Kit

Another fantastic resource by Joey Banks, who also recently built iOS & iPadOS 14 UI Kit.

How work is changing at Figma

Dylan Field wrote about moving Figma towards a hybrid model, where both in-person office hubs and remote work is possible. I found this part from their internal survey especially interesting: “…almost half of employees currently based in San Francisco said they would consider moving to another city within commute distance if we offered multiple WFH days per week. Nearly two thirds of employees said they would consider moving to a non-hub location before the end of 2022 if all roles had the option to be remote.”

Collaborate from Anywhere

“In the latest episode of Greymatter, Figma CEO and co-founder Dylan Field sat down with Greylock general partner Sarah Guo to discuss how the company has evolved to meet a surge in demand, and how he is approaching leadership during this time of great upheaval.”

Manage Your UX Writing With Ditto Words

Femke shows Ditto Words, a new tool for UX writing.
Manage your UX writing with Ditto Words

Explore Figma Community

Figma keeps improving its Community. Now you can filter resources by type, see trending files and plugins, and follow popular creators.

Confessions that will get your Figma design card revoked

The replies are fun, but also highly educational about all the wrong ways to do things in Figma.

In the File: What’s Next After Product-Market Fit?

“You have a product that is loved, and your customers are bombarding you with feature requests. How should you prioritize? Drawing from his experiences at Uber, YouTube, and Figma, Yuhki shares some helpful ideas for how you might approach this phase.”
In the File: What’s next after product-market fit?

Build It in Figma: Create a Design System — Components

“Part 2⁄5. Add to your design system by building foundational components and organize them using pages, frames, names, and descriptions.”
Build it in Figma: Create a design system —

Option/Alt + L to collapse all groups and frames in the Layers panel

Gleb Sabirzyanov on how not to lose your head while navigating layers.

Cmd/Ctrl + right-click the object to show child/parent objects

Rogie shares a good tip on navigating nested layers.

First Day of Class With Figma Design

Miguel Cardona gave a virtual talk demonstrating the ways to develop and foster community through collaborative prompts and activities in a classroom with Figma.
58. [Workshop] First Day of Class with Figma

GPT-3 plugin to design for you

I shared some of Jordan’s experiments before, but this one goes much further.

Getting Started in Figma

A while ago, Rafal Tomal recorded an hour-long video on getting started in Figma, and now he shares why he switched to it completely.

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