“Explore ideas and riff on product flows with templates in Figma Make. Create an accurate representation of an existing product experience, then replicate it as a sandbox to experiment with design directions, new feature ideas, growth campaigns, and more.”

“The Community tab is back in the file browser, replacing the previous Templates & Tools tab, for easier access to your favorite public Community templates, plugins, and more. Now you can also easily discover internal templates published by your teammates with the new Resources tab in the file browser under your team space.”

Somehow, I didn’t realize how powerful the pattern fill is in Figma. Another reminder from Miggi that you can select any source you want to be a pattern, and it will live update. You can control the pattern type, scaling, spacing, and orientation.

The Shape Builder is a newer vector tool added to Figma Design from Draw. First, Miggi shows how to use it to easily cut up a shape with a path. Next, he makes a yin-yang symbol with it in just a few seconds.

Admins on the Enterprise plan can now require password protection for all published Sites & Makes across your organization.

Lauri Lännenmäki shows yet another use case for Make — after designing a complicated component with different properties and states, make an interactive playground to give to the developers. Great opportunity to test edge cases and experiment with interactions.

Design Engineer Carmen Ansio on the change coming to translating visual ideas into solid code: ​“We’re on the edge of a massive shift, thanks to three things coming together: smart design systems in Figma, an AI-native code editor called Cursor, and a data bridge called the Model Context Protocol (MCP). We’re not just translating pictures anymore. We’re building machine-readable systems that an AI can understand and build from directly. This guide is for you, the person on the ground, showing you not just how to use this new workflow, but how to think about it.”

Motion designer Thibaut Crépelle reimagined the launch of the iconic iMac G3 with an animated video and an interactive page made in Framer. Really fun passion project executed with high quality and attention to detail.

My first Mac was a Mini G4 introduced in 2005, but soon after, I also got an iMac G3 because of its cool look. Watching this reel made me want to get another one again.

Emil Kowalski helps decide when and how to animate to provide a better user experience, starting with ensuring your animations have a purpose. I finished Emil’s course Animations on the Web this summer and highly recommend following his writing on motion and animation.

A calligraphy artist Jake Rainis shares an interesting technique to improve your Bezier curves: ​“Plot your anchors as you normally would, but when you pull the Bezier handles to create curves, pull them at either a 0º angle (horizontal), or 90º angle (vertical).”

Mr. Biscuit explains the process of building a parametric button in Figma using the Variable Visualizer plugin.

Tom Johnson lists 10 issues that make grids hard to use in Figma.

If you missed a 2‑hour-long video Vibin’ on Inflight shared in #221, Ridd shared a short snippet demonstrating an advanced technique of turning similar objects into instances of a component by using Select Layers, Master, and Destroyer plugins.

Unicorn Studio makes creating WebGL effects, motion, and interactivity easy for designers. Later, they can be embedded in Framer, Webflow, or any website.

Updates to AI-powered image editing features across all products — remove background or boost resolution for up to 25 images at once, and choose between Gemini 2.0 Flash and GPT Image 1 to get results that best match your prompt.

Fantastic resource from Mike Smith, where all of the Google Fonts that are actually good are categorized by ​“vibe”.

“Now you can add all the templates within a template set in just one click — so you can create more assets and launch your campaign even faster. Just the click ​“Add all” button at the top of the template set to insert them into your file at once.”

“The look and feel of FigJam’s toolbar has a refreshed look and feel, with new iconography, submenus, and a streamlined experience. The tools you use still live in the same place, but their look and feel have been refreshed to match patterns found everywhere else in Figma.”

“We’ve rolled out updates to improve how embeds work in Figma Sites. Embeds let you bring interactive content directly into your webpage — from forms to music to social media — using a simple URL.”

A few updates to Figma Make to make editing, previewing, and iterating even smoother: preview your Make across screen sizes using a new device dropdown menu and custom dimension editor; Make now saves named versions and tracks every code edit, so you can quickly review changes and restore to an earlier state at any time.