Molly Hellmuth discusses five major changes to the Auto Layout introduced at Config 2022.

To answer some common questions about Component Properties, Tom Lowry re-recorded the little run-through that he did during one of the breaks at Config.

Ridd is rethinking his approach to content systems with the introduction of Component Properties.

Joey Banks creates a button component using both Variant Properties and Component Properties.

The team at One North discusses ten of their favorite plugins.

Figma announced a prototype screen reader beta that includes support for text notes, alt text for images, and the ability to interact with and navigate through prototypes with buttons and keyboard actions like tabbing.

Now organization admins can better control which widgets are available to their organization’s members.

The main menu order was updated to reach full parity between Figma and FigJam.

Figma fixed a number of bugs that should make your branch merges go a lot smoother.

Nathan Curtis wrote a really detailed 3‑part series on building a workflow to assure the quality of design system assets.

Congrats to all ten winners! Highly recommend going through the list and checking out these fantastic resources.

“Say goodbye to your drop shadow hacks. Now, you can apply individual borders to customize tables, lists, and single-sided panels.” This is one of my favorite updates!

Create more natural and fluid transitions for your prototypes with spring presets or a custom animation.

It’s finally here! Pro tip: open the Quick Actions panel (Cmd-/) and type ​“dark” to switch quickly and avoid going through nested menus.

Designers Joel Miller and Oscar Nilsson worked on the new Auto Layout together. In this thread, Joel talks about some of his favorite things about this release.

”We’ve announced some new updates on Auto Layout at Config 2022, including negative spacing, absolute position, and more! In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through what’s new and what’s changed.”

Figma built a fantastic interactive page showing great possibilities provided by variable fonts and how to use them in Figma. It’s been a year since Toni Gemayel built the Variable Fonts plugin, and I’m happy it finally became a native feature.

Ridd shows why the new Instance Swap component property ​“blows the roof off of what we can do with components”.

Great improvement that wasn’t highlighted during the keynote.

Andrey Okonetchnikov makes a case for thinking twice before introducing a boolean property when modeling an API of the component as it can hide complexity and introduce impossible states.