The 3rd and final part of Rogie’s series on designing a book app.

Useful keyboard shortcut to keep in mind!

“Join Designer Advocates Joey and Rogie as they dive into components: see them leverage constraints, apply auto-layout, explore negative frame spacing, styles, and more.”

The team at Evil Martians shares how designers and engineers can speak the same language by using dynamic components built with Auto Layout. The article presents multiple techniques with good animated examples.

“Hold the Option or Alt key while in Vector Edit mode to see precise measurements between points.” The team at Figma is on fire lately — there was at least one app update in every issue since March!

A description of how Figma calculates font metrics. Useful mostly for font foundries and type designers.

Manage the words across your team’s product with a central source of truth.

“We sorted Figma’s plug-ins on most downloaded and we took on testing the top 50 in the list. Here is what we found out.“

Unn Swanström tries and reviews ten popular plugins.

When you don’t use an Auto Layout, a Drop Shadow with blur set to zero may be a nice alternative.

Designer advocates Tom Lowry and Rogie King dive deep into some lesser-known capabilities of Figma’s prototyping tools.

“Auto Layout has been around for a while, but not everyone’s aware of the benefits it brings. It doesn’t replace constraints, they’re still very much needed. The trick is to use the right feature where necessary. I want to show you how to combine components, constraints, and Auto Layout for the best results.”

An interesting approach of using pre-defined spacer components and Auto Layout for managing space in design mockups.

While working on the book, I learned about a powerful way to arrange objects using a combination of Layout Grid and Constraints. I wrote a short article for Pro​to​typr​.io explaining how it works.

Now you can follow people on Figma Community. In the Community section, you can switch the view from Popular to Following to see updates only from people you follow.

Better integrate Figma with your team’s favorite tools. Trigger actions in tools like Slack and Jira whenever a file or library is updated, commented on, published, and more.

You can now adjust the scale of Figma’s user interface in the Desktop App.

“This is a simple mockup with a glass effect created from the video presentation of the new Microsoft tool, Office.”

Easily copy frames from Figma to Axure RP 9 or publish frames directly to Axure Cloud.

Pixelic is a collaborative workspace for Figma users to sync Figma pages, manage frame-level versions, exchange feedback, and manage design tasks in one place. Post ​”When Figma isn’t enough for product teams” shares their vision on how a ​“third workplace” for Figma users could help designers save time and work better. Looks really promising.