Rogie shows how to add a hover state and make nav component instances inherit all main component triggers.

The Forge is a curated collection of premium font foundries. They provide hundreds of high-quality typefaces as downloadable trial fonts for testing.

Design Lead Gabriela Schmitz from LottieFiles gave a talk at Figma Meetup. If you didn’t try it yet, Lottie has a popular plugin for Figma.

A new video and free Figma template from Femke. ​“Impactful designers are great at communicating design decisions and documenting design process. This is the deck to level up your communication and documentation process.”

A plugin by Rogie to play GIF animations in the editor (!), make memes, and export animated GIFs straight from Figma.

A service for creating interactive user flow diagrams and design presentations from Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD mockups.

A robust library of over a hundred wireframing components to faster explore more ideas.

“Figma-Low-Code is an open-source project that enables the direct inclusion of Figma designs in Vue applications. By ensuring that the Figma design stays the single source of truth, this approach reduces the need for design hand-offs and front-end code significantly.”

It’s all too easy to focus your design system on the perfect component, missing out on the aspect that’ll ensure your success – collaboration. Join Zalando’s Louise From and Julia Belling to understand how they created, educated, and scaled their internal design system.

Designer Advocate Joey Banks shows a preview of what’s coming in November. Can’t wait!

Figma is a 2020 Innovation by Design winner in User Experience category. Fast Company credits it, at least partially, with enabling companies to work remotely. ​“Figma has become the virtual whiteboard of the pandemic.”

Marcin Wichary digs into how font fallback works. As always, his post is a deep dive into the topic. Highly recommend!

While feature introducing Variants of the same component is currently in beta, this help article provides recommendations on how to prepare for its release in November.

Figma added two new integrations — one for keeping designs up-to-date in GitLab issues, and another for converting mockups into web pages with Maker. This article talks about some recently-launched integrations to help your product team collaborate in Figma.

Minor UI cleanup, but you can now select all text objects using the missing font.

“When more than one fill, stroke, or effect is applied to an element you’ll now see a draggable icon on hover, making it easier to reorder things.” A small but mighty update — it was really painful to drag properties before!

Figma now won’t lose offline changes you make even if you close your browser or your computer crashes.

Two features announced on the Config Europe are already live! New Instance Swap menu and updated Inspect tab help both designers and developers navigate large, complex libraries in Figma.

Announcements from the above keynote, presented as a blog post. ​“We believe in embracing concepts from engineering and design, adopting the rigor and reusability of code while preserving the rapid iteration and uninhibited exploration that makes visual design so powerful. […] When code and design components mirror each other, teams can move much more efficiently. Today, we announced Variants, Interactive Components, and improvements to Auto Layout that will allow teams to do just that.”

“Combine variations of the same component for different interactive states, colors, and sizes to mirror your front-end code and simplify your asset library.” (Coming in November.)