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Robert Bye reflects on his first full year at the new Figma Native apps team and how much their desktop, iPad, and phone apps have changed in 2022

Clara Ujiie came up with a simple workflow for visually testing components. (The same tutorial is available as a Twitter thread, if that’s your jam.)

Ana Boyer with tips for using Figma for presentations.

Vijay wrote a step-by-step guide on making a button with a cool multi-color glowing effect.

Luis is experimenting with a different way of managing styles in Figma. He argues that bringing styles a lot closer to their usage makes it easier to understand the context.

In this tutorial thread, Fons Mans walks through the steps of creating Linear-like gradients. The community file is available as well.

Jackie Zhang writes about approaches to enhance team communication through logically structuring Figma files, labeling and annotating your designs, and hooking up all your files in a single FigJam flow. I particularly like the last recommendation and going to try it on the next project.

An adventure game made with Figma prototyping tools.

Ridd just launched Dive with an amazing lineup of design educators. In this tutorial, he designs the new Dive website and shows how his use of components to speed up workflow in Figma, talks about visual design principles and his approach to UI design in Figma. Lastly, he shows how easy it is to go from Figma to Framer to a published website.

Now it’s easier to track changes to components and styles. A new icon shows when styles or instances have changed, lets you accept changes for individual instances or layers, and even shows a before vs. after preview! See a quick demo by Jacob Miller.

If you’re still relying on JPGs and PNGs, it may be time to give WebP format a try with this plugin!

Along with its basic built-in spellchecker, Figma introduced a new API opening the door to more advanced tools. SpellCheck is a commercial plugin offering a bunch of features, like checking an entire project, building a personal dictionary, detecting ​”Lorem Ipsum”, auto-correcting typos, and supporting multiple languages.

A few tricks for successfully exporting Figma mockups to Framer. In the end, it all comes down to using flexible and consistent structures in Figma that translate to code in Framer really well.

While the community file is super simple, I love how its prototype is used as a quick landing page, with links and animations. Fast and scrappy!

A quick tutorial for creating and prototyping a tab bar menu.

Vijay Verma with a smart workaround for rotating an object reflection with the key object. (And here is another one, if that wasn’t enough!)

Miggi with two great tips on managing gradients. I wish we didn’t need to resolve to a 100 pixels square hack, but often it gets the job done!

Miggie shows how to prototype overlay transitions for thumbnails using interactive components. This tutorial is intermediate and covers the use of overlays, Auto Layout, interactive components, and placing images.

Anthony gives a tip on adding prototype scrolling and interactive components inside your Figma presentations.