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!

Make sure to check replies for more ideas.

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

Another great but well-hidden feature.

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.

As always, Gleb comes up with an incredibly creative way to push Figma’s limits.