Christine Lancaster thinks Figma is the right fit for designing in the challenging times of 2020. ​“Down with design elitism and preciousness. Let’s include the copy writers, the dev team, the client, the PMs, the whole shebang in our design process. Better collaboration means we end up building the right things for the right people.”

Nina Mehta from Mailchimp discusses what design pairing is, how to structure it, and tips for convincing your boss that it’s a good idea. This is a recap from a livestream featured in Issue #13.

One of my favorite time-savers!

Ryan Warner once again, this time at Egghead: ​“By adding auto-layout to our button component, we can change the text within the button while automatically maintaining consistent horizontal and vertical padding, just like we would in code.”

The link to a community project is in the replies.

Now it’s possible to embed private Figma files into the tools used by the whole team, like Dropbox Paper, Notion, Coda, Jira, etc.

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

Framer Web team shows how to move from visual design to interactive prototyping in minutes, thanks to their recently announced Figma importer.

Zeplin redesigned their Figma plugin, improving export experience and solving some of the performance issues.

Short tutorial on syncing live spreadsheet data using Google Sheets Sync plugin. Part 2 covers ordering data, hiding cells, and swapping components.

Designer Advocates Tom Lowry and Rogie King talk about their favorite Figma plugins. Here is a list of all discussed plugins.

Finds detached component instances in your document, so you can decide what to do with them.

Because of COVID-19, the design team at YML had to adjust quickly to a new reality of remote work. They switched from Sketch to Figma as so much of their work relies on collaboration, and now their team shares why.

Great demos of the most popular animations.

Figma’s Designer Advocate Rogie King continues streaming the process of designing a cocktail recipe app. This part focuses on typography, colors, and style, while Part 3 brings at all together with additional views, prototypes, and transitions.

Ramy Majouji, Product Designer at Glossier, and Joey Banks, Designer Advocate at Figma, show how they use Auto Layout and other features to speed workflows up.

Helena Jaramillo from Coda and Silvia Tueros-Cossio from Stash share how they convinced their developers to join them in Figma and what that collaboration looks like.

Good tips on creating custom transitions, handling and organizing multiple flows in a prototype, and communicating during developer handoff.

A beta channel for the desktop app is now available — you can run it side-by-side with the existing stable desktop app.

You can now turn off the Figma toolbar and footer in Presentation View without going full screen.