“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.

Nice tip! That’s something I use quite often.

A list of 5 solid principles for building components — reusability, nesting, UI and UX patterns, reusing styles, and consistent naming structure.

Samuel shares a few tips on organizing Figma files.

“A strategy that may help ease some of the pain and confusion when deprecating unwanted components.” That’s something we all have to do from time to time, so I’m glad Steve Dennis documented his approach.