A large shipment of small updates to Figma and FigJam. The community file is the best way to learn about all of them with demos and examples, but see also the blog post with a list of updates.

Figma Designer Advocate Luis Ouriach talks to the UX Lead at Wix​.com Domas Markevičius about how they embed a culture of collaboration and communication between designers and developers.

Anthony DiSpezio goes deep on hexagons, and this has absolutely nothing to do with Twitter or NFTs.

“Over the past two months, we’ve rolled out a number of updates to comments in Figma. As always, insights about our users and how they design together informed these improvements. The data science team spearheaded experiments to learn how to encourage feedback and collaboration directly in the file. Here, Data Scientist Emily Jia shares the hypotheses, tests, and learnings that lead to this cross-functional, data-driven product launch.”

Quickly import and embed PDF files into your FigJam boards.

Generate a random confetti pattern on your canvas.

“Slots Components for Dummies” by Ridd, who is one of the biggest proponents of this approach. Great guide to one of Figma’s ultimate superpowers.

Cool walking animation by Bruno, Community Advocate for Figma in Portugal.

A new plugin by Framer. You can now copy layers in Figma and paste them directly into Framer to make your Figma projects interactive in just a few steps.

Cool (but creepy) character animation experiment by Miggi from Figgi.

Great example of a rich Figma prototype made with lots of cool interactions. See also a video on Alvish’s Twitter.

With all the discussions around composition-based design systems, Joey Banks provides a counterpoint on reducing complexity and increasing reliability with simpler variants.

This is really exciting! Many iPad users already know and enjoy the Figurative app, but having an official app will be amazing.

After discovering a bug in redesigned comments in November, their rollout was postponed for a month. Now they are finally available to everyone. If you need a refresher of what changed, this thread summarizes it well.

Really cool plugin (currently in beta) for turning frames into components. See a short video demo.

A new plugin by Gleb for turning vector lines into pixel art.

Zander Whitehurst shows how to animate a radio button supafast.

If the screenshot is real, this is an exciting rumor!

Great comparison of different techniques for customizing components by Ana Boyer. Playing with the examples instead of just reading about them makes all the difference.

If you’ve ever used my tool Accessible Palette, one of its core features is support for Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm (APCA) — a great alternative to a basic contrast algorithm in WCAG 2 and the current recommendation in WCAG 3 Draft. This plugin is a simple contrast checker using this algorithm and taking into account fonts size as well as background and foreground colors.