#Features

The building blocks of Collaborative Creativity

Niko tweeted a quick recap of his talk.

Introduction to Figma’s interactive components

“While it’s always been possible to animate controls using Figma prototypes, it required some crazy workarounds and a ton of views to be created. With the new functionality, it’s super easy, and it allows you to create some pretty nifty interactive and animating prototypes.”

Placeholder Components — Editable components without detaching in Figma

Adam Ruthendorf-Przewoski introduces the concept of Placeholder Components.
Placeholder Components — Editable components

The difference between using Packed & Space Between in Auto Layout

Joey Banks shows the difference between the two Auto Layout modes.

Rasmus Andersson on branches

Love this quote: ​“Great software is not built in months; it often takes a long time to get things right enough for a first version.”

Our favorite Figma Plugins: Part 1

Solid plugin recommendations from the team at Superformula.

Mesh Gradient

This is epic! One less reason to use Illustrator. ​“Mesh Gradient generates a gradient image with an underlying 2d mesh, and lets you edit the vertices & edges of the mesh to get the perfect gradient look.”

Figma to React

Convert Figma designs to React code (React Native and Next.js). See also a discussion on Hacker News.

Cross-functional Team Collaboration Kit

A Figma template from Dropbox to help facilitate cross-functional collaboration across teams.

Stats and thoughts about monetizing Figma plugins

Great thread by Yuan Qing Lim, a prolific author of over a dozen of Figma plugins.

Auto Layout order

Speaking of Auto Layout, this tweet by Rasmus Andersson (Figma’s Staff Designer in the past) and the following discussion in replies provides an interesting look into why the items in an Auto Layout go backward and why this probably won’t change soon.

Auto Layout in Figma

A detailed guide to the latest version of Auto Layout.

Create new projects and files from the team browser

Miggi from Figma points to another small improvement shipped as part of this release.

All of your Figma accounts, connected

Seamlessly switch between your work and personal Figma accounts while preserving a single Community handle.

Publish individual components

You can now select specific components to publish changes in your libraries. Miguel Cardona gives a quick demo in the video, and Figma’s Director of Product Sho Kuwamoto provides context behind this release.

Bulleted and numbered lists

Use bullets and numbers to organize information, emphasize important details, or outline steps. Check out the video by Anthony DiSpezio with a quick demo. Hope you caught the fun lists launched as an April Fools joke!

About Figma’s new Starter plan

Figma is changing its free Starter plan on April 21, 2021. Drafts are becoming a personal space for work with unlimited files, pages, and viewers. If you want to co-edit with others, you have to move the file to a team space. They’re removing the two-editor limit in the team space but adding a new maximum of one project with three files and a cap of three pages per file.

Find it faster with quick actions

Fantastic update with an easy way to access your recent actions, Figma plugins, menu items, and more from the center of your canvas.

Digital Designers Take Professional Collaboration Tools and Riff on Them

The Wall Street Journal writes about Figma being used for fun stuff not related to work, like off-sites for team-building, fan art, interior design, and even wedding-planning.

Designing Micro-Interactions With Figma Interactive Components

Rodrigo Osornio shows a few cool micro-interactions made with Interactive Components.

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