#Gleb Sabirzyanov

Fixing broken paths

Gleb Sabirzyanov suggests a few approaches for fixing broken vector paths and shapes.

Transparent fill with background blur effect

A nice trick from Gleb on how to create a transparent fill that supports a background blur effect.

Pixel Princess

A new plugin by Gleb for turning vector lines into pixel art.

Paint

A new plugin from Gleb Sabirzyanov for getting custom colors from Figma to FigJam.

Master

Gleb Sabirzyanov released a major update to his popular plugin for working with components.

Gleb Sabirzyanov on Open Design and the Figma Plugin Ecosystem

Gleb Sabirzyanov is a guest at Sustain Open Source Design podcast. You may know Gleb from his popular Figma plugins (Master and Blend) and countless community contributions. In this episode, he talks about the plugins he built, a project he started working on called Pink Turtles, and where he sees the future of Figma evolving in the next couple of years.

Make a pattern in Figma

Gleb Sabirzyanov shows an easy way to create tiled patterns in Figma.
Make a pattern in Figma — Quick Tutorial

Reminder: never use variants for different icons

Gleb is right – icons as variants can’t be previewed or searched. In fact, Figma doesn’t recommend using variants to group different icons either. If you have different sizes or versions of the same icon, then you could combine these as variants instead.

Blend

Blend plugin by Gleb Sabirzyanov allows you to copy any object along the path.

Move Components Between Files — Master Plugin for Figma

Gleb Sabirzyanov shows how to move components between files using his Master plugin.

Move Components Between Files — Master Plugin for

Interactive Coin Flip

Gleb Sabirzyanov made a cool isometric coin animation entirely in Figma.

How was my Config 2021?

Gleb Sabirzyanov on his experience of speaking at Config 2021.

Sort on Canvas by Name

Handy tiny plugin by Gleb Sabirzyanov.

Selecting objects with a transparent background

Smart workaround for selecting objects with a transparent background. I also like a follow-up from Gleb Sabirzyanov in the replies on ensuring that developers won’t implement this hack.

Option/Alt + L to collapse all groups and frames in the Layers panel

Gleb Sabirzyanov on how not to lose your head while navigating layers.

Design System Starter

Gleb Sabirzyanov shares his starter kit for creating your own design system. It includes inputs, buttons, tags, dropdowns, tabs, type, color, etc. He also wrote a Twitter thread on how he used his Master plugin for building it.

Wondering how many frames or instances you’ve created?

That’s a really smart workaround to gather stats!

@zyumbik: Creating a full circular progress bar animation

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

@zyumbik: Implement “real” typing in the prototype

Gleb got on the challenge of implementing typing in the prototype using overlays, keyboard triggers, GIFs, and some magic. Absolutely impractical but fun nonetheless!

Do you know how to select layers in Figma?

Gleb Sabirzyanov shares all known ways to select layers. There are more than you might have expected!

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