#Features
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.
Change Starting Frame in a prototype
Did you know about this @figmadesign shortcut? I just discovered it and it's handy when working on complex documents 🤓 pic.twitter.com/v9hYzU37aE
— Adrián Mato 🐙 (@adrianmg) December 1, 2020
Animate Angular gradient strokes
Figma @figmadesign protip: You can animate Angular gradients strokes. Make a simple loading animation by rotating the angle of the Angular gradient on a shape's stroke.
— miggi from figgi (@miggi) December 10, 2020
s/o to @annehelliott for the question & @BenMendelsohn for the rectangle. pic.twitter.com/aXe1y2DAak
Hiding only Layers panel
Figma @figmadesign Protip... If you ever want to hide just your layers but keep the properties panel on the right when screen sharing (cuz layers be looking rough sometimes)... just hide only them `Command + Shift + \`
— miggi from figgi (@miggi) December 3, 2020
(You can also hide everything with `Command + \`) pic.twitter.com/MMggw86d0A
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! 😉
