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Our favorite Figma Plugins: Part 1

Solid plugin recommendations from the team at Superformula.

Auto Layout in Figma

A detailed guide to the latest version of Auto Layout.

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.

Stats and thoughts about monetizing Figma plugins

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

Cross-functional Team Collaboration Kit

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

Figma to React

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

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.”

Create new projects and files from the team browser

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

Designing Micro-Interactions With Figma Interactive Components

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

Sources

New plugin for downloading original images from your Figma files. It’s possible to dig them out in the Inspect panel, but this is a much easier way. Check out a short intro video.

Prototyping Keyboard/Gamepad Interactions

Learn how to use keyboard/​gamepad interactions for TV and game-based interactive prototyping.
Figma prototyping with keyboard/gamepad

Using Interactive Components & Variants to Create a Segmented Control

Joey Banks with a quick demo.

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.

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.

Stay up to date on design work in Slack

“With the Figma app for Slack, you’ll be notified when you’re tagged in or invited to a file, someone replies to one of your comments, and new comments are made in files you’re subscribed to.”

Figma is working on voice chat

Makes so much sense. Figma is going after all collaborative tools.

Figma is working on Bulleted Lists

At this point, we all probably have built our own Auto Layout components for bulleted lists, but it still would be nice to get the real thing.

A list of cool things made with Interactive Components

Rogie compiled a giant list of cool demos and experiments.

Office Hours: Get started with Interactive Components

Check out Figma’s office hours to get an Interactive Components demo and learn tips and tricks.
Office Hours: Get started with interactive

Figma for Classic Mac OS

Fun project by Wesley van Breukelen. (I only wish pull-down menus looked right!)

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