When you don’t use an Auto Layout, a Drop Shadow with blur set to zero may be a nice alternative.

Designer advocates Tom Lowry and Rogie King dive deep into some lesser-known capabilities of Figma’s prototyping tools.

“Auto Layout has been around for a while, but not everyone’s aware of the benefits it brings. It doesn’t replace constraints, they’re still very much needed. The trick is to use the right feature where necessary. I want to show you how to combine components, constraints, and Auto Layout for the best results.”

An interesting approach of using pre-defined spacer components and Auto Layout for managing space in design mockups.

While working on the book, I learned about a powerful way to arrange objects using a combination of Layout Grid and Constraints. I wrote a short article for Pro​to​typr​.io explaining how it works.

Now you can follow people on Figma Community. In the Community section, you can switch the view from Popular to Following to see updates only from people you follow.

Better integrate Figma with your team’s favorite tools. Trigger actions in tools like Slack and Jira whenever a file or library is updated, commented on, published, and more.

You can now adjust the scale of Figma’s user interface in the Desktop App.

“This is a simple mockup with a glass effect created from the video presentation of the new Microsoft tool, Office.”

Easily copy frames from Figma to Axure RP 9 or publish frames directly to Axure Cloud.

Pixelic is a collaborative workspace for Figma users to sync Figma pages, manage frame-level versions, exchange feedback, and manage design tasks in one place. Post ​”When Figma isn’t enough for product teams” shares their vision on how a ​“third workplace” for Figma users could help designers save time and work better. Looks really promising.

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.