#Features

Rogie: 3 new features to ease communication with your developers

Rogie demonstrates a few recent improvements to the Inspect tab.

Rename Paint Styles

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

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.

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.

Neon effect

Beautiful effect, reminding me of Kai’s Power Tools. (If you know, you know.)

Making layout grids work for you

An interactive article that aims to help you pick, set up, and use Layout Grid in Figma.

6 Steps to Make Excellent Blurred Background

This tutorial shows how to create attractive blurred backgrounds to get your designs ready for iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur. It’s not specific to Figma, but the advice is solid.

How we design our assets

A smart approach to image optimization. The loading effect in the result looks very nice!

Office hours: Get started with Variants

Figma’s Designer Advocates share how Variants work and answer questions.
Office hours: Get started with Variants

Styling the wrapper around Variants

One of the unexpected features, but can be useful when organizing your design system.

All you need to know to start using Variants in Figma

A short overview of Variants, when to use them, current limitations, and how to get started.

Override Improvements and More

A few quality-of-life improvements to components, team libraries, and the Inspect tab.

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.

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.

Figma Tutorial: Variants

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

Figma Variants Playground

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

Creating and Organizing Variants

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

Bridging Design and Code with Variants

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

Figma Variants Intro

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

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.

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