A super useful tip by Miggi. The power of combining FigJam with Figma always keeps surprising me.

Easy and fast way to access a pre-defined color palette in FigJam.

“Coordinated, moderated usability testing takes time. Maze makes it faster and easier with unmoderated user testing! In this video, Pamela Porto provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to create a usability test in Maze with a Figma Prototype.”

“FigJam is a great place to host all kinds of meetings and collaborative exercises with your team. In this video, we’re going to show you a few ways to prepare for effective meetings that will help your team build, align, and connect with one another.”

Mizko with a new video comparing the design hand-off process using Figma vs Zeplin.

At Microsoft, Figma is winning over Adobe XD as their design tool of choice. Jordan Novet wrote an interesting profile for CNBC showing how several acquisitions and internal demand led to its rise in popularity, even while Microsoft and Adobe have worked together for over 20 years.

Undo and redo faster in FigJam iPad mobile app: two-finger tap to undo, three-finger tap to redo, and three-finger swipe left/​right to undo/​redo.

Jam seamlessly in FigJam iPad mobile app with Observation mode and Spotlight.

Experience a more responsive Apple pencil when you’re using FigJam on iPad mobile app.

Now you can use copy and paste to quickly replace image fills in FigJam.

Find more stickers by right-clicking on one to reveal a link to the parent library.

Easily size shapes to the same dimensions using new guidelines to match height and width.

Old news for our readers ;-) Hover over stamps to see who left them.

Stay in the diagram flow, with Connector tool (X) now persisting by default; hit Esc or V to return to the Move tool.

Create shapes and stickies faster with new auto-create prompts at the top, bottom, left, and right.

Another personal favorite! 📐 Connectors will automatically straighten when objects look center aligned — no more wonky lines!

Miggi shows how to create a FigJam file, maximize the FigJam collaboration features, navigate the FigJam toolbar, add text, images, and stickers to your file, use sections for organization, and finally, how to invite others to your FigJam file.

Interesting talk by Zeplin​’s co-founder and Head of Product Berk Cebi on the evolution of design systems over the last 10 years, the role that design tools play in this process, and the unfortunate disconnect between our design components, code, and documentation. He suggests design tokens may be one of the potential solutions and shows how they can be used to connect the parts of the design system.

I’m not a big fan of Sketch’s ​“Sketch vs Figma” page, but I had a big laugh over this. Highly resourceful.

The team at LottieFiles explains how to recreate an animation from Apple’s iPad mini website.