Jan Six, Sr. Product Designer at GitHub, talks about creating a design tokens system in Figma. See also his plugin Design Tokens below.

Google’s Material Design is teaming up with Figma to bring great UI from design to code: ​“Our design to code workflow allows teams to create UI components in Figma and export them in a portable container we call a UI Package. These Packages can be directly used in Jetpack Compose projects for Android applications, can be edited in Figma, and can be directly updated in code with good developer ergonomics for component reuse and change management.” Don’t miss the video from Android Developer Summit with a new workflow.

Kelly Gorr and Prasanna Gunuru, Microsoft. ​“Figma is a powerful design tool that is used by many designers across Microsoft. Building custom Figma plugins can unlock new capabilities, resources, and shortcuts that are tailored to enhance design processes. Kelly and Prasanna take you through what it’s like building Figma plugins and how they are used at Microsoft.”

Ivy Knight and Rody Davis, Google. ​“Material You is enabling a new level of individuality across interfaces. But how does dynamic color interact with the distinct brand expression in your design system? In this session, we’ll dive into the NEW Figma plugin for generating dynamic color schemes and see those changes reflected throughout your app’s UI.”

Jeremy Dizon, Runi Goswami, Michael Yom, and Joanne Deng from Lyft. ​“Like any product, a design system is only as useful as it is usable. In this session, the Lyft Design Systems team will share the end-to-end resources that enable their system users to build consistent, quality products and features at scale. We’ll learn about their most resilient processes, their past mistakes, their new-ish contribution model, and more.”

Jennie Yip, Atlassian. ​“Design systems have evolved into robust ecosystems of interconnected tooling, documentation, conceptual models, and more. We’re excited to bring you on a journey to celebrate and reflect on the past decade as we shift our mindsets, apply systems thinking, take on the monster of scale, and embrace the complexity of ​“platform.””

Jen Yee and Luca Orio, Netflix. ​“Jen and Luca will reveal how systems and freedoms can coexist and how your design community can thrive at any stage. Letting go of consistency and control might sound scary, but embracing a culture of context and trust is the key to supporting an ecosystem where collaborative creation can truly fuel innovation.”

This file contains character sticker sheets and illustrations from Microsoft Inclusive Design’s toolkit. They are commonly used when referencing Microsoft’s Inclusive Design methodology and the diversity in human abilities and preferences.

“The Microsoft Surface Duo Design Kit includes safe areas, design patterns & guidelines, dual screen postures, and components for designing Dual Screen apps that users love.” (The last link about Microsoft for now, I promise!)

Alek Mackie, a Senior Illustrator at Shopify, shares how he stays creative and productive.

“Windows 11 mockup is containing different frames created to give you the all-new Windows 11 feel.”

“Everyone is talking about the new Microsoft emojis and redesign. Here are high quality Microsoft emojis in all their 3D glory!”

“In this episode, Charli talks with Sara Hill and Dan Ross product design leads at Shopify. They show off the evolution of the Shopify design system, how they’ve managed to scale it, and the challenges they faced along the way.”

Mariz Melo, a Lead Designer at Google, shows an update to their Figma components. Love the idea of keeping redlines for engineers as a component’s variant!

Josh Mateo, Design Systems Lead at Netflix: ​“Effectively scaling and extending a brand into a company’s product is a common challenge I’ve noticed throughout my career. If we deconstruct visual attributes and technical constraints into scalable elements, we can begin to influence the brand from the product, or vice-versa.”

“A template for the GV Brand Sprint – a workshop format conceived at Google Ventures and well documented by Jake Knapp. In 3 hours or less, you get a very good picture of a brand, its vision, future and challenges.”

A Figma template from Dropbox to help facilitate cross-functional collaboration across teams.

A new plugin by Metalab for dropping your designs into one of several hands in two easy steps.

“Growth Data Scientist Wendy Lu shares how an experiment to enable remote collaboration kicked off a larger workstream to understand changes in collaboration more broadly. We found that users are collaborating more across regions and time zones, designers are working more closely with their cross-functional colleagues, and people are starting to include collaborators earlier in the design process. Below, read more on our findings (and methodology), and see how these trends come to life at Atlassian and Dropbox.”

How Dropbox uses Figma’s Smart Animate feature to illustrate product design concepts.