A free preview of the official Tailwind UI Figma Kit, containing all the Text, Color, and Effect Styles found in Tailwind UI, along with 40+ complete components that use the latest Auto Layout and Variants features. See also a blog post on its creation above.

Update from November 2nd, 2021: Figma assets have been discontinued.

Great guest post by David Luhr at Figma’s blog on what it takes to ship a commercial UI kit with over 1,400 components and 10,000 distinct elements, all while keeping quality and usability top of mind. I love the work the Tailwind team is doing, and this is a great look into their process.

What an exciting leak! ​“FigJam is a new whiteboard space where you can explore ideas with your team.”

“In 2017, InVision was the top prototyping tool, with 60% of UXTool survey respondents indicating they used it. Only three years later, their user share fell to 23%, with more than half of those people only using it as a secondary tool. In contrast, Figma has seen an explosion of growth and popularity, rising from about 8% of respondents using the tool in 2017 to about 57% in 2020.”

Open-source design and prototyping alternative to Figma. Really cool to see!

Live-building Sign-in and Registration components for the official Tailwind UI Figma kits.

Ran Segall explains why Figma is better for starting and experimenting on designs.

Creating responsive prototypes with Figma and Anima.

Zapier announced a new set of features for product teams, including native support for Figma Variants.

A new 3rd-party app for commenting on Figma files from your phone.

Mizko shares his opinion along with votes from 913 designers on the best design tools in 2021.

An overview of tools for converting Adobe Illustrator files to Figma. Based on this test, XD2Sketch works the best and has a comprehensive set of converters between popular design tools (the name is misleading), but their price is steep.

Speaking of Zeplin, this is a pretty good overview of how a digital agency ArcTouch uses it together with Figma.

Warren Tobias describes the whole process of developing a proper design system and replacing Sketch, Abstract, and Flinto with Figma. Interestingly, they continued using Zeplin for the handoff process as their development and engineering team is mostly outsourced.

Great skit by Pablo Stanley that made rounds in the community. Love how both Figma and Sketch played along and changed their names on Twitter for a while!

Results from a fantastic survey of over 4,000 designers run by Taylor Palmer. Figma basically destroyed the competition in almost every category this year. Compare with the results from 2019 that I shared a year ago in Issue #3.

SystemFlow is a new designer-first, utility framework for Webflow and Figma, with 1000+ CSS classes, pre-built components, layouts, and more.

Python scripts for simplifying design review and sharing design work. Scripts download updated screens from Zeplin or/​and Figma to a new folder with the current date.

Anima has announced the launch of version 4.0, which will allow designers to create prototypes in Figma that are translated into components in React with the click of a button. See an article on TechCrunch or watch an overview by Femke.

Excited to see Adobe shipping new exciting features. ​“We’re introducing an entirely new way to design in XD with 3D Transforms. Now, you can move and rotate objects forwards, backwards, and across planes to bring depth and perspective to your designs and create new types of user experiences.”