Big day for the Figma community! After years of making official design resources only for Sketch, Adobe XD, and Photoshop (!), Apple finally launched a Figma community page and published a UI kit for iOS 17 and iPadOS 17. (Interestingly, this seems to be the first community resource requiring accepting Terms of Service before opening.)

Let’s use this opportunity to thank Joey Banks for his community service in building many iOS kits over the years, starting with iOS 13!

“You can now review, respond, and leave feedback to comments from your phone or tablet.”

FigJam is now available on iPad! Beta testing was announced back in January, and I’m really glad they started with FigJam. While I can’t see myself using the iPad for high-fidelity work, it’s perfect for making low-fidelity sketches with Apple Pencil or laying out flows. See the Twitter thread by Robert Bye, Product Manager of Mobile and Desktop Apps at Figma, on making some of these decisions while building the app.

A regular reminder that if you’ve got an iPad, Figurative app and Pencil Pal plugin are must-haves.

The team at Doist recreated the just announced Apple Widgets from iOS 14.

Joey Banks built this whole kit before some people even watched a keynote! Awesome work and incredibly useful for anyone designing for iOS.

Figurative brings the desktop-class editor experience from Figma to iPadOS. Compatible Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, or even Mouse.

A cool workaround to use Figma on iPadOS using Google Chrome and mouse. It’s not a perfectly smooth experience yet, but getting close!