A game of jeopardy powered by Figma variables! Change all the questions and answers with variables and play a custom game with your team. Made by Elizabeth Lin.

Miggi covers the different ways that variables can be added when creating prototypes, and how you can use them to make them more dynamic and with fewer frames. We cover all of the currently available variable types: booleans, numbers, strings, colors, and even discuss how to bind string variables to interactive components.

Designer Advocate Mal shares a few handy shortcuts that are worth memorizing — quick actions search, hide the layers panel, insert components, and zoom to selection.

MDS experiments with swapping variant instances between modes using boolean variables, and Johan Netzler suggests an alternative solution.

Vijay Verma with a quick video tutorial on how to create a functional loader with variables and conditions.

Starting July 6th, Figma Enterprise customers have the option to host key parts of their Figma and FigJam files in the EU. This feature is designed to give Figma customers in the EU greater flexibility to meet local compliance and data privacy requirements.

“For added security, organization admins on the Enterprise plan can set an idle session timeout to log out users as soon as 12 hours after they become inactive. By default, Figma automatically logs users out when they are inactive for 21 days.”

CSS Evangelist Kevin Powell made a video walkthrough of the new Dev Mode specifically for other developers. Share it with your team!

Zander is showing how to quickly create a responsive card grid.

Molly Hellmuth shares five updates you can make with the new min/​max sizing and auto layout wrap that will make a big difference in your designs. Tip #5 on having text grow in both directions is my favorite!

Great roundup of 7 games made with variables and advanced prototyping. Quite impressive to see how far designers have pushed new features just a week after they were announced.

Vijay is building a game using variables with new advanced prototyping features and explains how it works along the way.

Double Glitch made the Space Invaders game and turned Figma into a game engine.

Realistic typing is finally possible in Figma prototypes using variables.

Anthony DiSpezio shares a community file and a quick tutorial for creating a cute blooming flower effect.

While Will was working on Figma-OS, Willy Wu from Figma was also building his own version with a Figma plugin to help compile small C programs using ELVM. Don’t miss a thread on his journey.

A deep dive into variables by Thalion.

Occasionally someone builds something in Figma that just melts my brain: ​“Figma-OS is the first Turing-complete 8‑bit computer built using Figma prototyping tools. Figma-OS has state-of-the-art specs with 512 bits of RAM, 16 bytes program memory, 10 Hz clock speed, and a MISC instruction set of 16 OPCODEs.” See the thread from Will DePue on how it works.

Vijay Verma won’t miss a chance to build something fun with a new Figma feature. Here, he made a fun personalized avatars constructor using different combinations of components and variables.

Good thread by W3C’s Design Tokens Community Group on Figma variables, and how they differ from the spec. Great to see that Figma is actively collaborating with the community group on adding modes to the specification, and already built sample plugins for importing and exporting DTCG-compliant JSON files. (BTW, if you ever wondered what the variables icon was based on — now you know.)