#Features

Multiple prototype tabs in the desktop app

No need to use Chrome for comparing prototypes between pages anymore!

Reverse layers order in Auto Layout

I shared a tip on using 180° rotation to reverse layers order in an Auto Layout frame, so the first layer is top- or left-most.

Our Favourite Figma plugins for 2021

The team at Mono shares their most-used and favorite plugins for 2021.

Figma tips: Building flexible components using the “slot” method

Designer Advocate Luis: ​“We often find ourselves creating lots of different variations of similar components, this can be tedious and difficult to maintain. Using a technique called ​“slots”, we can swap out components very easily from a single component.”
Building flexible components using the "slot"

Vectary 3D Figma Plugin

“The Vectary 3D plugin for Figma is adding the missing third dimension to your 2D designs. Place your Figma design into a predefined 3D mockup or your custom 3D element. Set your desired perspective in 3D and place the result into the scene with one click.”

Vectary 3D Figma Plugin

Double-clicking on the edge of a text box

Joey Banks on a shortcut to set a text block resizing mode.

You should always name your layers

Cmd‑R is one of the most underrated shortcuts.

Keyboard Shortcut Annotation

Annotate your mockups with a nice-looking keyboard shortcut illustration. It’s super easy to customize and includes all the most common special character keys.

Interactive Coin Flip

Gleb Sabirzyanov made a cool isometric coin animation entirely in Figma.

Branching in Figma

Figma Designer Advocate Chad Bergman shares best practices for using branching.

Coming together at Config 2021

At Config 2021, Figma announced six new ways to collaborate and bring you and your teammates together — their 2nd product FigJam, branching (currently in beta to Org accounts), a new mobile app, voice chat, higher user limits, and publishing to the Figma Community for everyone.

The difference between using Packed & Space Between in Auto Layout

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

Placeholder Components — Editable components without detaching in Figma

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

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.”

The building blocks of Collaborative Creativity

Niko tweeted a quick recap of his talk.

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.”

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.

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!

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.

All of your Figma accounts, connected

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

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