Beautiful adaptations of popular apps icons for Big Sur.

In case you missed some textures lately.

See also his Figma file.

See also his Figma file.

Official design resources with all the new stuff announced at WWDC, including files for all platforms and in multiple formats, except for Figma. This is a big omission on Apple’s part, but luckily we have a thriving community that quickly rose to a challenge.

A detailed look into how Microsoft is building a cross-platform Fluent Design System. They have an interesting take on building a Figma plugin to move away from fixed values and toward consistent design tokens that later translated into platform-specific code values.

Designers from Shopify, Condé Nast, and Harry’s share their experiences with creating and maintaining a design system across multiple brands.

The Microsoft team just published four files of icons and components for their open design system, Fluent, on Android, iOS, and web.

Airbnb’s chief design officer Alex Schleifer talked to TechCrunch. An interesting insight into how Figma helped them ship new features while working remotely: ​“We like to use as few tools as possible, but Figma is a game changer because people can see decisions being made live.”

So far, Atlassian shared their Foundations and Components packs.

Spotify Design shares how they have shaped Figma to their needs and culture. This post focuses on file structure: ​“Allowing multiple people into the same file doesn’t automatically lead to better collaboration. Our files would need to be organised in a way that is visible and discoverable by everyone. After all, you can’t collaborate on work that you can’t find.” See also: Spotify Ways of Working.

Figma’s online event with Cheechee Lin from Dropbox and Viktoriia Leontieva from Microsoft, discussing how their teams perform remote sprints and share the ins and outs behind their community templates, designed to help teams who are adjusting to remote design.

Microsoft released design and UI-related downloads for Fluent Design and Windows apps.

Michelle Morrison, Design Program Manager at Dropbox, turned her ​“Designing Culture” workshop from Config into a blog post.

Brian Lovin from GitHub turned his Config talk into an article.

Alex Lockwood from Lyft shares a few examples of how their team used Scripter plugin to build a design system library and automate tasks that would have otherwise taken hours or days to complete.

“The published plugin is private to our org, but hopefully the implementation is useful for anyone trying to build something similar.”

Uber published components from their React UI framework as an open-source resource on Figma.

Google shared several Material Design kits in Figma Community.

The story of how Dropbox Design migrated to Figma and structured their cross-platform design system.