How to copy and paste an individual property for color or an effect.

“In this Figma Tip, we create an Auto Layout chat bubble to be used in FigJam. Chat bubbles outlined in this tip and some additional Auto Layout notecards can be downloaded and reused from a community file.”

“Learn some FigJam shortcuts, bring FigJam stickies into Figma, change the colors, copy-paste stickies as action items in Asana or a list in text-based applications.”

Remove the background of images automatically, using remove​.bg​’s clever AI.

“Here is a simple trick that you can use to hide and unhide the app header on scrolling down. This trick can be used in web and mobile app prototyping, as the user scrolls down the header will be hidden and as the user scrolls back to the top the header will be shown.”

New short video from Figma:55 on using Auto Layout and Variants to make a table.

“In previous Auto Layout videos, we showed how to create an Auto Layout component from scratch with the end-product already in mind. But what if you’re still ideating and don’t know what the finished product will look like yet? Designing can be messy and unpredictable. But you can easily add auto layout at any point of this process.”

Instead of mocking data with a bunch of rectangles in a rough prototype, use a specially designed font like Flow or BLOKK Neue.

u/​TheJMoore has been posting a lot of useful content on the r/​FigmaDesign subreddit lately. This one compares animation easing styles side-by-side.

Great overview of plugins and external tools on Awwwards blog.

Improved font fallback in Figma and FigJam to prevent missing characters when using scripts like Traditional & Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Set a shared timer in FigJam to keep brainstorms, retros, and workshops on track. (See the demo below.)

A nice way to switch variants without leaving the context. I wonder why this change didn’t make it to the above list of updates?

“For designers working in Figma, every click matters. We recently launched 30 features, fixes, and improvements to enhance your workflow in Figma.”

Figma desktop app is now officially optimized for M1 Macs. (Used to be only the beta app.)

Figma set up figma.new and figjam.new domains as shortcuts for creating new files.

MDS takes a look at interactive components (currently in beta) — what they are, how they work, and the different ways they can be used in prototypes.

In the follow-up to a previous video, MDS builds a prototype with multiple radio button interactive components.

“Convert selections to a frame, break apart frames, and show frame outlines in Figma.”

Master resizing frames in Figma while using constraints and ignoring constraints.