The 3rd part of the series focuses on creating constraint-based field components with Auto Layout to build forms that scale to various browser sizes.

A trick that combines Auto Layout, frames, and fills to resize image layers along the vertical and horizontal axes.

Designing and playing Star Trek Adventures in Figma, with a group of people who never used the app before.

Sho Kuwamoto provides some context for their decision.

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.

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.

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.