Lauren shows how to create a micro animation (also known as micro interaction) using a heart icon. These interactions add a really fun touch, and I love that the tutorial uses a heart icon from another tutorial by Miggi.

Lauren Andres discovers an older feature ​“delete and heal” to create smoother vector lines.

Fons Mans is back with a new tutorial on how to create a glowing glass effect in Figma.

Hold the Spacebar when moving an object to ignore Auto Layout.

A good tip from Jan Toman on color-coding different types of components inside a Figma library, which allows everyone to identify the component’s source and set the right expectations from these components.

MDS with a great shortcut of double-clicking on a layer icon to zoom into selection.

On a similar note, this thread by Luis is a great walkthrough of debugging, reducing complexity, and refactoring a tricky variant component. The core part of his approach is slicing everything up into composable parts.

Joe Bernstein on confronting the conflict between what’s possible in Figma and what’s practical: ​“Ultimately, my point here is that I over-engineered this component. Figma has the capacity to be much more than a design tool, and sometimes I use it to engineer a UI. Clearly I enjoy doing that, and I even get lost in the weeds to achieve a deeply technical solution. But design systems and asset libraries are just as much a user-centered design problem as any other publicly facing product.”

With the Walkthrough widget, you can give your stakeholders an interactive tour with smooth animations without being there yourself. You can use it to introduce file content or explain a complex flow.

What, an old-school plugin without AI? 🤯 ​“Dithercore creates cool dithered images reminiscent of ​’80s and ​’90s computer graphics. It brings back the primitive technology of early PCs by utilizing pixel patterns and color schemes from that era.“

Effortlessly remove backgrounds or isolate objects using AI.

I see this tip on exporting the original image file from the Inspect panel shared from time to time, and it always surprises people. Wish it wasn’t so hard to discover!

A quick tip on using keyboard shortcuts to align layers.

Speaking of aligning layers, individual vector nodes can also be aligned or evenly distributed.

Luis with a nifty list of suggested emojis to indicate different kinds of component properties.

The recording of Miggi’s workshop livestream on using vector tools in Figma.

“Navigate FigJam files without taking your hands off your keyboard by using the Tab key to jump between objects on the FigJam canvas, like sections, shapes, and stickies. You can also tab between text nodes while editing text to rapidly make edits across your file. Hold Shift + Tab to tab back in the reverse direction.”

Admins now can select all users in the Members table in the admin console. New customers in Japan, Europe, UK, and Canada who require invoicing can now purchase an Organization or Enterprise plan in the local currency or USD.

One-click export of Figma prototypes and animations to GIF, WebM, or MP4.

“The plugin Shape Move is specifically designed to allow you to create more dynamic and engaging animations within designs by animating the anchor points of vector shapes. An anchor point is a fixed point on a graphic object that serves as a reference for scaling, rotating, and positioning. You are able to customize the timing and easing of the animations, as well as the duration and delay of each animation.” See an impressive demo video.