Rogie’s really cool short video shows his process and use of Figma features for creating Grim Syndicate NFTs.

Nice concept of what one of the features in Auto Layout 4 may be. I’d definitely love to see this!

Admins on the Organization plan now can see who’s using FigJam at the Members and Activity tabs.

Hosts of the Layout podcast joined by a friend of the show Ryan Hassan, designer at Figma, to tell us all about how they’ve redesigned Comments.

Fill-in-the-blank sticky note, where different people can fill out different parts of the sentence. Works great for e.g. ice breakers, user story templates, and critical user journeys.

Warp your designs using Smudge, Twirl, Bulge, Pinch, Arc, Flag, and Free Transform tools. This premium plugin brings the typical warp tools known from other vector apps to Figma.

Figma added new MacBook Pros, Surface Pro 8, and small and large Androids to the frame presets.

“When you create a file in your drafts, you may have a lot of asset libraries to navigate if your organization and teams have multiple published libraries enabled by default. But what if you only want to see specific libraries when you’re exploring an idea in drafts?”

Combining components and shapes to create more advanced shapes.

Jan Toman wrote a guide for using Figma branches to improve the reliability of UI components. His approach of always using branches for design system contributions and creating a set of visual regression tests is similar to the best practices in the development world and should really help with making a design system more robust.

Danny Sapio with a few quality tips for working with components.

Dan Hollick explains why colors in Figma can be different from the colors found on the web. Personally, I usually keep the Figma desktop app in sRGB color space to avoid surprises, only switching to Unmanaged for specific tasks.

The team at Awwwards explains how Tilda differs from other website builders and why it’s the best tool for web designers who work on Figma and want to create professional websites without writing code.

Designer Advocate Ana Boyer ran a 15-day prototyping challenge to help the Figma Community learn how to take advantage of the new features and level up their prototyping game. In this post, she is sharing a recap of all tips, along with Figma Community files to get you started.

“In this last month of 2021, we introduced more ways to make collaboration and creation a breeze, so that nothing gets in the way of your productivity.” A few FigJam updates, a new mobile app for Figma, and partially rolled out new comments.

Admins on the Organization plan now have more ways to see who’s using FigJam and who’s in need of an editor license.

Two new tools in an improved FigJam toolbar: Highlighter (Shift‑M, hold Shift for straight lines) to highlight text and objects and Eraser (Shift-Delete) to delete individual strokes to correct and refine your sketches. See also this tweet from Miggi on how to bring doodles made with Highlighter from FigJam to Figma.

A practical walkthrough by Ridd of how you can use slot components to build a scalable system in Figma that is efficient and flexible.

After discovering a bug affecting how comments appear on the canvas, Figma paused the rollout of the new comments until later in January.

“AWS Amplify announces AWS Amplify Studio, a visual development environment that offers frontend developers new features to accelerate UI development with minimal coding, while integrating Amplify’s powerful backend configuration and management capabilities. Amplify Studio automatically translates designs made in Figma to human-readable React UI component code.”