This demo of the upcoming Ando plugin blew up over the last few days. Antonio Cao is working on a plugin using Stable Diffusion to generate AI art based on visual and text prompts. The new wave of AI design tools may be the biggest change in our industry after the introduction of multiplayer by Figma in 2016.

“The Figma app allows your team to riff on ideas together in real-time, present designs to get stakeholder feedback, and share the latest updates with everyone — without ever leaving Microsoft Teams.” See also the conversation with Jon Friedman, Corporate VP of Design & Research at Microsoft, about collaboration, the importance of design systems and toolchains in freeing up time for ambitious work, and why it’s worth it to change a company’s culture — even if it’s hard.

Nice improvement to the search — now you can find files based on page and frame names, in addition to the underlying text.

Molly Hellmuth shares a few things she learned about using Component Properties after rebuilding a design system from scratch.

Learn everything you need to know to master the latest version of Auto Layout and optimize your work.

Wire Box converts your high fidelity designs into low fidelity wireframes. I couldn’t see why this plugin exists until hearing about other people’s struggles with providing feedback on a ​“perfect” prototype made with a design system.

Elizabeth Alli shares how to embed an interactive Figma prototype into Notion.

Patrick Morgan on setting guardrails to give structure to your presentations made in Figma. (I always use Figma for my slides. One time I had to use Google Slides, so I designed my slides in Figma and then copy-pasted them to the presentation.)

I’m not familiar with the Specify app, but this use case is something I’ve been thinking of automating myself. Happy to see that there is an existing solution! As Sun Tzu once said, ​“If you wait by the river long enough, the Figma tools and plugins you need will float by.”

Figma opened up the prototype screen reader beta to everyone. The feature was announced earlier in May. ​“The beta includes screen reader support for text nodes, alt text for images, and the ability to interact with prototypes with buttons and keyboard actions like tabbing.” Here is a quick preview using a macOS VoiceOver.

Generate all possible instances for your components, including every combination of variants and component properties, all in a tidy labeled table.

I was looking for a plugin to clean up my file and convert all color values to matching color styles, and this plugin got the job done perfectly. Thanks to Dave Kover for the recommendation!

Miguel with a few useful shortcuts for adjusting font size, weight, letter spacing, and line height.

Gary Simon created an accessible app to help his dad. An entire thing is based on a Figma prototype. Hope it worked out well!

As you may have noticed, I have a soft spot for color tools supporting perception-based color spaces. Taras Brizitsky writes about the plugin Generator that he built with Alex Bourt. It’s a really cool idea and implementation — start with a color, apply a set of visual modifications and conversions, and generate an entire palette from it. Change the starting color or modifiers to update all generated colors. Awesome!

Undo and redo faster in FigJam iPad mobile app: two-finger tap to undo, three-finger tap to redo, and three-finger swipe left/​right to undo/​redo.

Jam seamlessly in FigJam iPad mobile app with Observation mode and Spotlight.

Find more stickers by right-clicking on one to reveal a link to the parent library.

Now you can use copy and paste to quickly replace image fills in FigJam.

Experience a more responsive Apple pencil when you’re using FigJam on iPad mobile app.