How would you create a spiral in Figma without any external tools? Miggi’s answer is in the thread, but some of the solutions from others are really smart and creative too!

Anton Kuznetsov shares two workarounds for creating negative spacing with Auto Layout. The easy way is to use Space Between, but there are some limitations, so Anton offers using a frame as a wrapper.

Performance updates are always welcome: ​“We’ve reduced the amount of CPU usage FigJam and Figma take up. Large files with many users should run more smoothly now.”

An official Community resource for the popular Automator plugin. Explore automations made by the community and remix them to work best for you.

Create, attach, and update tracking events in your Figma files.

Discover, design, and discuss memes while using Figma with this plugin.

Dan & Xiang demonstrate what you can do with the LottieFiles Figma plugin.

A cool explainer of impressive interactive effects made with Figma, Spline, and Anima.

In this tutorial, one of the designers from Noun Project gives a few quick tips on using Figma’s ​“Smart Animate” tool to animate icons in your UI.

One more service for publishing websites from Figma — love how vibrant that space is! Figment helps you add website effects such as videos, links, and animations to your Figma mockups. When finished, it publishes or exports your website’s code.

Makers is a Figma plugin to help you build and publish sites directly in Figma without writing any code. They even provide a few templates to speed up the process. Make sure to watch an impressive demo video.

A few improvements to the file browser. As you type in the search field, Figma now shows a preview of matching search results, sectioned off by resource type (files, projects, people, and so on). There is also supposed to be a new filter by a file type, but I couldn’t find it 🤷‍♂️

A curated list of automations for Jordan Singer’s popular Automator plugin.

The plugin allows you to create beautiful shadows by simply dragging a ​“light source,” which casts a shadow from selected elements. The shadow effect is achieved by layering and easing multiple drop-shadows to create a skeuomorphic shadow umbra and penumbra.

Four templates that may help ease the pain of the design handoff process — a table of contents, detailed specs, mockups, and flow templates.

“How can we update and test our design system components in Figma? With branching, we have a space to explore updates in our main library files while keeping the source of truth intact. And, with Swap Library, we can quickly change what libraries are being used in a file. Let’s take a look at how we can use these features together to iterate and test our components.”

Anton Kuznetsov wrote a detailed guide to creating components with customizable content, better known as ​“slot components”. This approach is the best way to reduce the number of detached instances in your project.

…and a few improvements to the plugins and widgets menus in FigJam.

A few bug fixes related to prototypes.

New Storybook plugin for Figma that lets you connect variants to stories.