Rogie designs an app for discovering useful books for leveling up as a designer. In the first part of this 3 part series, he wireframes the ideas for the app. In Part 2, he works on visual design explorations.
Noah Levin built his first plugin for turning URLs into little cards. Great for organizing shopping inspiration and visually including relevant links to the project. Now waiting for their API to support links.
Noah Levin, Design Director at Figma, dives deep into their day-to-day operations — meeting cadences, rituals, and anything else that helps the design team stay connected and efficient.
Designer Advocates Tom Lowry and Rogie King talk about their favorite Figma plugins. Here is a list of all discussed plugins.
Great collection of tips and tricks from the community.
What are your best @figmadesign tricks? I’m organizing a file with all of the coolest things I know for the community, but knowing y’all, you got the 🔥 ones and I want em!
— ˗ˏˋrogieˎˊ (@rogie) April 28, 2020
Figma’s Designer Advocate Rogie King continues streaming the process of designing a cocktail recipe app. This part focuses on typography, colors, and style, while Part 3 brings at all together with additional views, prototypes, and transitions.
Ramy Majouji, Product Designer at Glossier, and Joey Banks, Designer Advocate at Figma, show how they use Auto Layout and other features to speed workflows up.
Dylan Field: “Today, I’m excited to share that Figma has raised a $50M Series D round of funding, led by Peter Levine and Marc Andreessen at a16z.”
Nice update. Duplicating files just to see what’s inside was quite annoying.
Nice silent update in @figmadesign: now you can preview all pages in Figma Community files without need to duplicate them to your files first. pic.twitter.com/XVXFgGcYWG
— Vadim Pleshkov (@aswellasyouare) May 6, 2020
Figma’s VP of Product Yuhki Yamashita and special guests recap recent releases and give a few sneak peeks for what’s coming soon.
Miguel Cardona teaches New Media Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and shares some of the activities that he does with students in Figma.
Make sure to check replies for more ideas.
One of my favorite parts about my role @figmadesign is being able to talk to design system managers at companies of all shapes & sizes and I've learned from them just how useful emoji can be when naming components. Have any that you use? Here are some of my favorites... 🎨✋🔄🚫 pic.twitter.com/EaMUeGrV7v
— Joey Banks (@joeyabanks) April 17, 2020
Another great but well-hidden feature.
Figma tip! Try holding space while dragging over (or inside) frames to preserve layer order! @figmadesign pic.twitter.com/utg89I7GNN
— Anthony DiSpezio (@adispezio) April 16, 2020
Node.js command-line utility to get live and historical stats for your Figma plugins. Great tool for plugin authors.
Introducing Figma Plugins Stats, a Node.js command-line utility to get live and historical stats for your Figma plugins.
— Yuan Qing Lim (@yuanqinglim) April 13, 2020
👇 More info in thread.
1/8@figmadesign @FigmaPlugins pic.twitter.com/JM2EYUFCeT
Great thread from Design Manager at Figma on how one of its most unique features came to life, from the initial pitch to design challenges and decisions.
Wanted to share a bit of the process of building Selection Colors, a little @figmadesign feature I feel rather (maybe strangely) proud of.
— Marcin Wichary (@mwichary) April 14, 2020
(This was originally meant to be a blog post, but the Covid-19 situation is sapping my energy…) pic.twitter.com/qD7Us8dq2V
In this weekly Office Hours in Figma, Anthony DiSpezio and Rogie King are talking about team structure, multiple component libraries, versioning, and updating components at scale.
Nasdaq speaks with Dylan Field after Figma was featured in Enterprise Tech 30 list.
As always, Gleb comes up with an incredibly creative way to push Figma’s limits.
Advanced @figmadesign prototyping challenge: create a full circular progress bar animation with just two frames and Smart Animate. 😎 Can you?
— Gleb Sabirzyanov (@gleb_sexy) March 31, 2020
▶️ Duplicate the Figma file to see how I did it: https://t.co/zqAZnAlds5
Not gonna lie, my brain still hurts from this one.🧠 pic.twitter.com/0TZRE0AXOv
Yuan Qing Lim shares ten heuristics for crafting plugins for Figma, based on his experience of building over a dozen of them.