Another great but well-hidden feature.
Figma tip! Try holding space while dragging over (or inside) frames to preserve layer order! @figmadesign pic.twitter.com/utg89I7GNN
— Anthony DiSpezio (@adispezio) April 16, 2020
Design leaders Nina Mehta from Mailchimp, Hareem Mannan from Segment, and Katarzyna Babula from Gusto discuss how to solve problems faster through pair designing.
In this weekly Office Hours in Figma, Anthony DiSpezio and Rogie King are talking about team structure, multiple component libraries, versioning, and updating components at scale.
Unn Swanström is looking at how big a difference animations can make in prototypes and shares a few tricks for creating them in Figma.
Smart workarounds for making reusable progress bar components that can indicate different values.
A shared Figma community project Stay at Home Valley got featured in Fast Company. The article highlights lots of smart details, so it’s worth checking even if you saw the project before.
Links (announced at Config 2020) and Universal Search are finally here! Check out Links Playground + Game to learn how to use them.
The team at Figma is exploring ways of working remotely. Alia Fite shares some ideas on how to kick off and run a remote brainstorm session.
After starting working remotely during the pandemic, Figma’s top priority has been finding ways to stay connected while far apart. This article shows how they are making a remote team still feel real.
Thanks to Figma’s commitment to open web, Framer X just introduced Figma importer. This is great news for people interested in interaction design and advanced prototyping.
Feedback Kit by Mixpanel helps you ask for the type of feedback you need in a reliable and methodical way, while giving your team the tools to provide feedback in the way you’re asking for.
Quickly annotate your designs to indicate their status, like In Progress, Review, Approved, Develop, or Completed.
It’s not as powerful as text on a path in Illustrator, but a great way to curve text upward, downward, or into a circle.
Good time saver. Alt/Option key only needs to be pressed if image fill isn’t set to Crop; otherwise double-click is sufficient.
Discovered a @figmadesign shortcut that will save me tons of time:
— Benny Bowden (@itsMeBennyB) April 3, 2020
Alt + Double Click: Crop Image pic.twitter.com/zzsPaKYgkU
As always, Gleb comes up with an incredibly creative way to push Figma’s limits.
Advanced @figmadesign prototyping challenge: create a full circular progress bar animation with just two frames and Smart Animate. 😎 Can you?
— Gleb Sabirzyanov (@gleb_sexy) March 31, 2020
▶️ Duplicate the Figma file to see how I did it: https://t.co/zqAZnAlds5
Not gonna lie, my brain still hurts from this one.🧠 pic.twitter.com/0TZRE0AXOv
Design Details podcast shares tips and tricks for staying organized in Figma, simplifying the engineering handoff, and not getting bogged down in pages hell.
Figma’s online event with Cheechee Lin from Dropbox and Viktoriia Leontieva from Microsoft, discussing how their teams perform remote sprints and share the ins and outs behind their community templates, designed to help teams who are adjusting to remote design.
A proposal for Figma to introduce Tokens panel with manually added values that can be reused across properties of objects and then exported to a developer-friendly format.
Figma Community is coming together to share resources, learnings, and best practices as we learn new ways of working together remotely.
On April Fun Day, Figma surprised all teams collaborating on documents with fun individual cursors. Check out the video demo shared by Emily Lin on Twitter.