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.”

Miggi shows how to use images as masks.

Super useful tip: double-click on the icon of an object in the Layers panel to jump to it. (Double-clicking on a name will trigger renaming.)

Middle-clicking or ⌘-clicking on the hyperlink goes directly to the target.

A short overview of the most important parts of Figma for developers.

Generative Art by Pawel Kontek is one of the coolest plugins I’ve seen in a while. It’s currently in beta and I can’t wait to play with it after it comes out!

Cool update to a LottieFiles plugin: ​“Instantly change the colors of your animation. Apply your own custom colors, or try out our carefully curated preset color palettes.”

That’s a pretty badass collection of shortcuts — I didn’t know most of them!

Supafast!

This deep dive into the making of the feature is my favorite kind of a blog post on Figma’s blog: ​“Building spring animations took our engineering team back to the classroom — to make animations that are both natural and accurate, we borrowed principles from physics. We’re excited to share the mechanics behind the movement, and the story of how spring animations bounced their way into Figma.”

Neat shortcut: ⌘-click on the Auto Layout padding field to adjust all paddings.