The team at Figma talked to 50+ designers, PMs, engineers, researchers, and writers about collaborating with other members of their team, and discovered five specific behaviors that can make or break your team’s vibes.
A great-looking game made entirely in Figma. The creativity of this community never stops surprising me.
I’ve shared a video preview of this generative art plugin in Issue #70, and now it’s available in a public beta. I played with Generater for a little bit and it was a lot of fun! Looking forward to using it on one of the projects.
The team at LottieFiles explains how to recreate an animation from Apple’s iPad mini website.
Ridd shares five awesome strategies for using component properties: strategic nesting, progressive disclosure, minimizing decisions, emojis, and streamlining the instance swap.
These two components might LOOK the same...
— Ridd 🏛 (@Ridderingand) July 6, 2022
But they couldn't be more different:
• ✅ One crushes component props
• ❌ One creates a nightmare
5 best practices for component props 👇 pic.twitter.com/x3ooMihZMp
Chuck Rice explains his Flexbox imitation technique combining the approach from the Breakpoints plugin with the updated Auto Layout. Pretty cool if you need to imitate the flex-wrap
CSS property.
Edward Chechique wrote a detailed and well-illustrated guide to component properties.
A widget to seamlessly document changes in your Figma files and libraries.
The best looking widget out there.
One of my favorite widgets is now available for Figma. See the video demo.
Ballpark is a new app from folks at Marvel providing a fast way to capture high-quality feedback on questions, marketing copy, designs, and Figma prototypes using tasks and video.
Free Google Font pairing and color palette suggestions.
This is the craziest thing I’ve seen built in Figma (here is a quick preview, but go try it): “With friends & coworkers visit a petting zoo, play hide and seek, race go karts, and more! Interactive Figmaland is a multiplayer interactive world built with FigJam widgets. Objects will animate when a character gets close to them.”
Cool tip on adjusting mixed values like object size or Auto Layout padding.
I never knew you could adjust mixed values in Figma like this pic.twitter.com/8bmMRJb0iT
— Joey 🙃 (@mrhammn) June 30, 2022
Useful shortcuts to toggle between Design, Prototype, and Inspect panels.
⌨️ Figma Tip: use Shift-E to quickly toggle between the Design and Prototype tabs, or ⌥8 for Design, ⌥9 for Prototype, and ⌥0 for Inspect.
— Figmalion (@figmanewsletter) June 23, 2022
Figma is improving support of international keyboards, currently in beta.
🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇩🇰🇳🇴🇮🇹🇪🇸🌎
— KC Oh (@okaysee) June 30, 2022
We've added 8 more layouts (UK, SE, FI, DK, NO, IT, ES, LATAM) so more folks can work faster in @Figma.
It's been fun to dig into ⌨️ quirks with @mwichary @dorothchen @SulaYang1 + Rachel Miller!
Sign up here if you'd like to beta test: https://t.co/Jw7otaHDN4 pic.twitter.com/XKDrYIareE
Widgets are now available in Figma! Their addition was quite predictable, considering how useful and popular they are in FigJam. Widgets for GitHub, Asana, and Jira were part of the launch. Also, both plugins and widgets are now accessible from the toolbar and easier to try before installing in the Community.
Another cool artifact from William Wu’s work on spring animations.
I threw this together while working on @figma's new Spring Animations feature with @rickrajj and @nikolasklein. It's a quick HTML/CSS/JS prototype to help us explore the different kinds of animations that were possible.
— William Wu (@willyvvu) June 21, 2022
Each tile has a different animation which plays on hover. pic.twitter.com/lFByB9He8L
Love this behind-the-scenes video of Nikolas Klein and William Wu from Figma experimenting with how fast they can set a spring animation based on a feeling.
One more @figma behind the scenes around building the editor for spring animations w/ @willyvvu and @rickrajj.
— Niko (@nikolasklein) June 22, 2022
Once we got a rough version working we tried out how fast you can set a spring animation based on a _feeling_ (aka me making weird noises).
Have fun! pic.twitter.com/YOa5N81NiF
Stark — a popular accessibility plugin — released an all-new version with better organization and a simplified UI.