Figmatch between illustrators Clare Freeman and Alicja Colon, hosted by Rogie King and Justin Mezzell on Twitch.

Design leaders from Figma, Apartment List, and Help Scout discuss how to set up remote design crits, offer some real examples, and share tips and tricks for success. Slides with Figma’s remote process are available on the Community.

Laura Escobar shares five key principles that prevent a design file from becoming the mayhem no one wants to use — using global styles, creating content structure, organizing layers hierarchically, reusing components, and following naming conventions.

Ultimately she went with InVision Studio, but her comparison and experience of using them is really interesting.

“This is a guide for using Figma and Google Sheets to rapidly prototype card games. It includes links to the tools, an overview of the key steps, and links to templates.”

Aleksei Kipin shows how to apply the Atomic Design approach to creating Figma components.

A valid point that specifying an element as a component and then detecting all the places where it has already been used would be a great alternative to the existing approach of defining components before using them.

“You can now activate the Hand Tool with a click in the toolbar or by pressing H, as well as by holding the space bar. This lets you pan with one finger instead of two on laptops with touchscreens.”

Sharing prototypes without giving access to their design files was released after being announced at Config.

Slide Guides is a collection of grid styles for 16:9 widescreen slides. They’re perfect for jumpstarting a presentation in Figma or for exporting to use in Keynote or Google Slides.

A collection of Moodboard layouts from Mixpanel, and accompanying slides that make presenting design concepts easy.

The plugin provides access to the library of Lottie animations and interactive designs.

Lots of ideas on structuring Figma files and projects in replies to this tweet.

Build and animate a prototype for a simple micro-interaction in Figma in this tutorial by Jeremy Osborn, Academic Director at Aquent Gymnasium.

Plugins to accelerate managing, ordering, and labeling design system components. The recommendations are pretty good, but I don’t think it’s fair to call some of these plugins with thousands of installations ​“underrated”.

How to speed up a tedious process of setting up a basic color system in Figma using plugins Smart Text and Chroma Color.

Solid collection grouped into categories like accessibility, collaboration, productivity, development, animation, and optimization.

Joey Banks from Figma shows how he uses Auto Layout to generate previews of their newsletter template for both desktop and mobile.

Brian and Marshall discuss creating layouts with Sketch’s Smart Layout and Figma’s Auto Layout, and compare the experience with implementing layouts in CSS and SwiftUI.

Adam Noffsinger shares his experience with using Figma for testing a self-driving car interface on a tablet using Figma Mirror.