#Features
Demo of Variable-Width Stroke plugin
Figma55 recorded a short demo of the recently released plugin by Figma cofounder Evan Wallace.
🎉🎉 Figma55 is one year old! 🎉🎉
— Figma:55 (@figma55) January 16, 2021
To bring in the new year, here's a video covering an often missed Adobe Illustrator feature that you can now do in Figma, thanks to @evanwallace's Variable Width Stroke plugin pic.twitter.com/vdNmwQ3gIi
Library description and file template improvements
“If you’ve added a description when publishing changes to your team library, your collaborators will now be able to see your notes as they review the updates.” Also, Figma Organization Admins can now turn templates off for their organization.
New co-editor experience, style improvements, and Asana integration
Multiple updates in a single release. First, Styles can now be reordered, grouped together, and opened in a floating window. Second, you can add co-creators to your public Community files and plugins. And last, Figma files can be embedded in Asana’s project overview.
Get started faster with new file templates
When creating a new Figma file, you can now choose from a selection of common presets and Community templates to get started. (I first wrote about templates back in July of 2020, but then it was only a limited trial.)
Variable-Width Stroke
The plugin adds support for variable-width strokes. Made by Evan Wallace, a co-founder of Figma. (Hopefully, this is just a sign that native support is coming to the app soon!)
In the File: Work Better, Together
“Unlocking collaboration is hard, especially for large remote teams. In this livestream, LinkedIn’s Renee Reid and GitHub’s Ash Guillaume share their insights and methodologies for creating collaborative and inclusive design processes.”
Office Hours: Scroll Actions for Your Prototypes
“Catch up on Office Hours with Niko and Aaron from Figma to level up on some new prototyping capabilities.”
Figma Tutorial: Create the Perfect Typography Scale for UI & Web Projects
Mizko made a good tutorial on creating a type scale using a tool by Jeremy Church. Other videos on his YouTube channel are worth checking out as well!
Horizontal and vertical scrolling presentation slides
Cool demo by Figma Designer Advocate Luis.
How about some horizontal *and* vertical scrolling presentation slides within @figmadesign?
— luis. (@disco_lu) December 14, 2020
With the scrollTo release last week, we can make some slick multi-axis transitions.
Here's my community file:https://t.co/c0P5xy12HE pic.twitter.com/KhXnN7Sexl
How to Make Ultra-Smooth Animations in Figma Motion Plugin
Pavel Babkin shows examples of creating UI interactions, adding special effects, and even animating basic game characters with the Figma Motion plugin.
Figma’s Auto Layout
Pablo Stanley released the first chapter of his Figma Crash course with five videos on Auto Layout.
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Using ScrollTo Interactions to traverse spaces
Yo @figmadesign coming through with the holiday treats!!! ScrollTo Interactions in prototyping solves a problem I've been having for a while...wanting to traverse spaces!
— miggi from figgi (@miggi) December 8, 2020
Here is something I whipped up in 5min. I set up an underlying grid of instances to form a grid of targets. pic.twitter.com/3jFGLT4Pqz
Figma Tutorial: Horizontal & Vertical Scrolling
Sebastiaan Schillebeeckx quickly recorded a tutorial on using Scroll To in prototyping. BTW, great choice of the book on his desk! 😉
