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.

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

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

Figma’s VP of Product Yuhki Yamashita and special guests recap recent releases and give a few sneak peeks for what’s coming soon.

Alia Fite makes a point that prototypes don’t always have to be high-fidelity. She shares the benefits of lightweight prototypes and some ways the team at Figma is using them.

Small utility to optimize and download Figma assets to your computer.

A step-by-step walkthrough for creating a fairly complicated animation in Figma.

Generate layers from your layout grids so you can export images or prepare diagrams to supplement your design systems documentation.

Nice to see how vector networks and rounded corners speed up the design process.

Plugin to connect Figma to the blokdots app, making it possible to use hardware components like sensors and buttons to control and manipulate elements right in Figma. Mindblowing!

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This is a huge time saver. Can’t believe I never tried this before.