“These fixes improve the user experience for users who only have access to the branch, so that they can more effectively work within the branch and are less likely to face errors.”

More ways for teams to customize their workspace and freely express themselves: organize documents into Sections, more colors (including adding your own!), sticky note resizing, and more.

Dylan Field shared three steps that Figma takes to become a more global company. First, Figma incorporated in Japan, set up an office in Tokyo, and started working on localizing Figma into Japanese. Second, they’re expanding in EMEA by opening offices in Paris and Berlin. And last but not least, Figma finally added support for RTL languages! Great news for designers working with Arabic, Hebrew, and Urdu who relied on 3rd-party plugins in the past. See thread by Lauren Budorick on why implementing RTL support was a huge undertaking.

A few typographic updates: the new default font size list (finally including 16px default on the web!), Inter replaced Roboto as a default font, and support for faux superscripts and subscripts that can be applied to any font — check out Tom Lowry’s behind the scenes deep dive for juicy details.

Manually update widgets that are already placed on a board.

Several updates to make brainstorming and diagraming even easier in FigJam: a simplified toolbar, text resizing, sticky stamps and highlights, image borders, and more.

Another drawing challenge from Miguel. Love the simplicity of his approach and how well the icon has turned out. 

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.