Luis Ouriach walks through updates to the design system structure recommended by Figma Advocates.
Happy Monday ☀️
— luis. (@disco_lu) August 1, 2022
The @figma design systems guide has been updated (big time!), with tips for:
• Differences between each Figma plan
• 3 types of design system file
• Example organisation structures
• 4 file structure examples
• Local component guidehttps://t.co/z00j98bech pic.twitter.com/6t3Ey5uSHS
Luis shows a neat trick on how to create an “infinite table” using component properties, where we can toggle on however many columns or rows we need in designs.
Tips time!
— luis. (@disco_lu) May 30, 2022
Using component props, we can create "infinite tables"
So we can toggle on however many columns / rows we need in designs
This prevents us maintaining large variant sets for every permutation of table 🍽
Community file to play with: https://t.co/WqNM5SMjSE pic.twitter.com/yhefqrNImC
Figma Designer Advocate Luis Ouriach talks to designers from Automattic about improving collaboration through inclusive workshops and processes.
Luis explores a few approaches to layer naming based on a level of fidelity, team conventions, and who is responsible for this work.
Luis shows how to create styles at rocket speed using batch renaming and the Styler plugin.
“Figma’s Designer Advocate Luis Ouriach has been collecting your questions in chat and online. He’ll dig in with our speakers to tackle design systems questions big and small.”
Luis talks to Santosh Komaragiri from Dataguard, who showed how they manage their Figma workspace. Their team has built some incredibly detailed product, marketing, and brand design systems which shows how you can take Figma to new levels of usage.
Happy Monday folks, here are a few ways to crop images easier in @figmadesign:
— luis. (@disco_lu) July 12, 2021
• Double click whilst holding Option (Mac) / Alt (Windows)
• Hold CMD (Mac) / Control (Windows) and drag the handles
• Use shapes and boolean operations
Happy croppin' ✂️ pic.twitter.com/Pex2IcerVF
Hey, guess what?
— luis. (@disco_lu) April 26, 2021
You can now open multiple prototypes from different pages at the same time on the desktop app.
Get noodlin' 🍜 pic.twitter.com/3yB56vo1Sx
I'm really happy to introduce a little something I've been working on, our @figmadesign for Marketers series.
— luis. (@disco_lu) April 6, 2021
We’ll start by creating a quick Instagram post 📷
Learn how to use:
• Plugins
• Shapes
• Colors
• Text
Get started with this file: https://t.co/bKvux7HxYp pic.twitter.com/mzD07nodgL
Interactive components are here my friends.
— luis. (@disco_lu) February 25, 2021
Here's a quick run through of what they mean and also why it's important for design systems teams.
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Sign up for the beta here: https://t.co/PYXoKapYVL pic.twitter.com/dZdqJ1fhDd
Great trick on using Union to preserve the color of icons.
Hottest #FigmaTip since sliced bread coming your way.
— luis. (@disco_lu) January 15, 2021
Here's a way to use variants AND icon instances with preserved colours 🤯 pic.twitter.com/iTNV664rQU
Cool demo by Figma Designer Advocate Luis.
How about some horizontal *and* vertical scrolling presentation slides within @figmadesign?
— luis. (@disco_lu) December 14, 2020
With the scrollTo release last week, we can make some slick multi-axis transitions.
Here's my community file:https://t.co/c0P5xy12HE pic.twitter.com/KhXnN7Sexl
Don’t miss a response from Nikolas Klein, showing how to resize objects while respecting the distance between them.
Little #figmatip to head into the weekend.
— luis. (@disco_lu) October 16, 2020
I only just found out that you can rearrange items with the little pink dot on your selected components / Frames / shapes.
🤯 pic.twitter.com/PGwIfVw04t
Dark mode in @figmadesign?
— luis. (@disco_lu) October 20, 2020
Sure 🕴
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Jump into chrome://flags/ and search for Dark Mode.
You can thank @neversitdull for finding this beauty. pic.twitter.com/Fcl6lHKuhq