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.

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.

Useful shortcuts to toggle between Design, Prototype, and Inspect panels.

Figma is improving support of international keyboards, currently in beta.

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.

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.

Stark — a popular accessibility plugin — released an all-new version with better organization and a simplified UI.

Aninix is a powerful UI animation plugin for Figma: ​“Easily create motion design systems, export animations for promos, and provide animation inspector for developers.”

Prototyper is a new plugin from the team behind Automator, offering powerful prototyping with JavaScript right in Figma, similar to the old days of Framer Classic. A really powerful combo for exploring ideas and building prototypes in higher fidelity.

Figma dropped a new tutorial: ​“With component properties, you can define which parts of a component can change. And instead of creating separate variants, you can use component properties to reduce the number of components needed. This takes the guesswork out of designing for anyone using these components and they can quickly make adjustments as Figma keeps component property controls in one place.”