A simple FigJam widget to easily visualize upcoming events and deadlines from the Figma team.

A pack from Double Glitch with a collection of pre-made text effects that you can apply to your designs with just a few clicks. Reminds me of the good ol’ days of downloadable Photoshop actions. While the pack is commercial, I suggest checking out a free demo in the Community and watching a screencast.

One more video by Christine, this time about components — covering everything from simple shortcuts to powerful plugins. Some of the topics include selecting matching layers across all variants, reviewing library updates, linking Figma components to a code base, using the EightShapes Specs plugin, moving components between files, swapping libraries, and using real data in instances.

Christine Vallaure shares a few practical prototyping techniques and advanced tips & tricks. They include using Auto Layout with Smart Animate, stateful transitions with sections, nesting prototypes, interactive components, and more. This video is also available as an article.

A solid round-up of recommendations from Pedro Morais on organizing Figma mockups and communicating important details to your team.

That Creator Micro keyboard and FigJam on iPad combo is pretty slick.

Now in FigJam, you can access face stamps from anyone in your organization and add them to your FigJam file. Browse available face stamps in the More menu and easily change an existing face stamp to another teammate’s face. (Available on teams on the Organization and Enterprise plans.)

Amazing intro video of the 5x faster comment replies in the updated mobile apps. See also the comparison of performance before and after this release.

Developer Advocate Jake and Designer Advocate Lauren have an insightful conversation about strengthening relationships between designers and developers. I love Jake’s point that trust is essential and we don’t need to understand every part of each other’s work to collaborate effectively. (Let’s hope Figma Detached is a new series, as I want more!)

In this Study Hall, Miggi covers several ways to add/​edit images in Figma and demonstrates how to upload a video to use when prototyping or presenting.

Tutorial Tim shows how the ​“Simplify all Instances” feature reduces an overwhelming visual overload in the Properties panel.

So many great ways to warm up the room in replies to Femke. I’d love to try This or That, play two truths and a lie, draw blind contour portraits, or look for common ground with my team.

Tru Narla, Software Engineer at Discord, shares some quality tips on using Figma as a developer — Inspect panel, copying code snippets, and exporting full-sized assets.

Luis with a cool technique for adding focus rings to a button using an absolutely positioned component instead of a shadow hack.

I mentioned the FigGPT plugin in the last issue, and now Edward Chechique wrote a detailed walkthrough of using this plugin. It requires an OpenAI API key but then provides direct access to ChatGPT prompts and tools for UX writing directly from the Figma document.

Danny Sapio with a few tips on working with paths, anchors, and fills to speed up your drawing workflow in Figma. This article is also available in a video format on YouTube.

Denislav Jeliazkov tested more than 500 plugins and collected a list of 102 that he keeps coming back to.

Is this an important update? No. But is it fun? Hell yes! The FigJam team keeps delivering the most delight per buck.

While I don’t often prototype interactions, I love the demo of all the use cases in this thread by Ana Boyer! Engineer Jediah Katz is also dropping some tips and tricks and Zander Whitehurst made a cool demo. Don’t miss the sticky scrolling playground file as well.

I hope this is the first step to batching all comments into a daily digest for lower-priority files 🤞