#Community

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 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

Build it in Figma: Create a Design System IV — Testing

Testing a design system to see if the component library is robust enough in real-world scenarios.
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Build it in Figma: Create a Design System V — Documentation

Rogie shows the best practices for documenting your design system using Figma and other tools.
Build it in Figma: Create a Design System V:

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.

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.

Anyone else using spacers in Figma’s Auto Layout?

Can’t wait to see what they’ve got!

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.”

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.”

macOS Big Sur UI Kit

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

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

How to add “native” Find functionality to Figma

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

Return to Instance after editing the Main Component

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

Explore the Figma Community

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

Manage Your UX Writing With Ditto Words

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

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

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

Rogie shares a good tip on navigating nested layers.

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