Nice shipment of improvements to the FigJam iPad app, branches review in Figma, and email notifications. You can also import the contents of a Miro board into FigJam now!
A new video from the Figma Bites: “In this video, we teach you the basics of interactive components and how you can use them in your prototypes. We’ll walk through how you can create prototype connections between component variants to build up more accurate interactions.”
An interesting application of smart Auto Layout hacks to create fully responsive chart components.
A cool collection of free stickers for Figma and FigJam.
Nice improvement! Too bad I can’t stamp +1 on my ideas ten times anymore… BTW, there is a cool easter egg on really old stamps.
we launched stamp name tags in @figma's FigJam today 🤸♀️ (psst... no more +1'ing your own ideas!!!!!)
— mihika kapoor 🧃 (@mihikapoor) July 14, 2022
so delightful to see this lil big detail out in the world 💖 pic.twitter.com/sOvviJK1Zx
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