Sho Kuwamoto provides some context for their decision.
This week, we partnered with our friends at @AdobeXD and @sketch to move away from the "master component" terminology.
— Sho Kuwamoto (@skuwamoto) July 22, 2020
Predictably, we were met with a few replies from haters who thought we were being too "PC".
1/n https://t.co/8PcNjkDiau
List view for color styles. In-line details for text styles. Search. The edit icon is available in the list view. Fantastic update!
Figma released Universal Search in April, and now they rolled out Deep Search, which allows to search for files that contain a given word or phrase.
Now you can adjust shadow spread in Figma on some kinds of objects to create better depth, glows, and borders. It’s fully compatible with the CSS property box-shadow
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Marcin Wichary, Design Manager at Figma, gives an inside look into how selection colors and OpenType support were built.
A starter wireframe kit for quick design and prototyping of ideas. Its library contains more than 150+ components and 50+ ready to use mobile screens.
“Magically create and present stunning slide decks from your Figma designs.”
Cool app for creating high-fidelity prototypes and exporting HTML from Figma designs. See also their review on DesignCourse YouTube channel.
Quant UX is a prototyping tool supporting importing from Figma. I was impressed with their tools for analyzing data collected from user tests.
I wrote about plugin HTML to Figma before, but now we came the full circle.
In the first part, Rogie uses constraints and components to build navigation that scales from mobile to desktop. In the second part, he shows how to use Auto Layout to design flexible grids, hero, and card components that adapt to any browser size.
A deep dive on scalable vector creation: learn about Figma’s unique and powerful editor capabilities using vector networks, boolean operations, texturing techniques, smart shapes, and corner smoothing.
The article covers some of the most common animations found in apps and websites and how to implement them in Figma.
Great video by Figma55 channel, explaining how to use stretchy Layout Grids in conjunction with Constraints. It’s based on my article from a few weeks ago, but video is a great medium to demonstrate that trick.
It seems like Figma is either rolling out or testing support for templates, but so far, it’s been available only to some people.
OMG @figmadesign has templates now?!?! It just keeps getting better and better omg ♥️♥️♥️ (source - @skd2492) pic.twitter.com/HnBbj6UHHQ
— Congrats! You have peaked in life because Chandra (@NCResq) July 3, 2020
Tweak the spacing for individual letters, adjust the line height of individual paragraphs, and fine-tune font weights.
It’s a simple design, but the idea is brilliant.
Lots of great recommendations in the replies.
What are some of your current favorite @figmadesign plugins, and what do you use them for? 👆👾
— hyam (@hyumankind) June 23, 2020
A recap from a presentation that product designer Helena Jaramillo from Coda recently gave. “In my experience, knowing how and when to collaborate with others plays a large factor in a project’s success. Here’s a look at how I’ve worked to bring engineers into the design process as early as possible.”
Nine things that team at Si digital learned while collaborating on projects in Figma. “If it’s a small project, two can be a crowd for side by side designing. Bring in a large project with a ton of pages and a tight deadline, two becomes the only way to deliver.”