#Features

Design Tokens

Export Figma styles and custom tokens to Style Dictionary JSON or sync to GitHub. I’ve been thinking of building a plugin for this before, so looking forward to trying it on one of the projects.

Rename Paint Styles

Select multiple styles at once, and perform Find & Replace functions to rename them.

Abstract

Whoa! I don’t use Abstract anymore, and it seems like this plugin requires access to a feature that wasn’t widely rolled out yet, but this is exciting. Abstract’s branch-based workflow is one of the rare features I see people genuinely miss when switching to Figma.

Anima

Anima has announced the launch of version 4.0, which will allow designers to create prototypes in Figma that are translated into components in React with the click of a button. See an article on TechCrunch or watch an overview by Femke.

10 Tips to Work 10x Faster in Figma

Carola Pescio Canale, Product Designer at Dropbox, shares a short list of her favorite tips and shortcuts to speed up Figma workflow.
10 tips to work 10x faster in Figma

Supercharged Boolean Options

A new video by Figma55, quickly demoing a few tips on using Boolean Operators.
Figma in 55 Seconds: Supercharged boolean options

Speed Up Your Workflow With Figma Plugins

Smashing Magazine published an in-depth look at several plugins that can speed up your design workflow.

Use the Inspect panel

The Inspect panel was also updated this week to make translating design to code easier. Now it provides extra details like documentation, parent component, and animation behaviors. Watch a quick demo by Rogie.

Super Variant Bros

This project was included in the last issue, but now Joey added more Mario characters and Variants support. Super fun to play with.

Tobias Negele: Using Variants to clean up components in Polaris

Shopify used Variants to clean up their local design system for retail.

Mattias Johansson: Using Variants in Spotify mobile design system

Another example from Spotify. Here, they moved from 36 to 4 track row components.

Juli SomBAT: Using Variants in Spotify web design system

In this example, they replaced 105 button components with just 3. (Sounds like they’ve been using Variants for a while, as Dylan Field used Spotify design system Encore to present the feature in his Config keynote.)

Nikolas Klein: Extending preserved overrides

Figma will now preserve all supported overrides, including overrides to fill and stroke properties, and blur or shadow effects. This Twitter thread provides some context on how the new implementation works with text overrides.

Joey Banks: Generate a toggle for the Variants

Setting the value of a property to be either true/​false, yes/​no, or on/​off will generate a toggle in the side panel to make it even easier to switch between options.

Figma Variants Intro

A quick introduction to Figma Variants and how to work with them effectively by Rojcyk.

Bridging Design and Code with Variants

A deep dive into how Variants were built and what challenges the team faced along the way.

Creating and Organizing Variants

Best practices for creating and organizing Variants by Figma Designer Advocate Anthony DiSpezio.

Figma Variants Playground

This playground walks you through everything you need to know to start working with Variants.

Figma Tutorial: Variants

Comprehensive tutorial, if you prefer a video format.
Figma Tutorial: Variants

Create and Use Variants

Variants are here, even ahead of schedule! 🎉 They let us combine variations of the same component, simplifying the Assets panel and mapping components more closely to code. This in-depth help article shows how to use them.

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