Honestly, speed it up a bit and this little delightful animation is a keeper!

Luis updated Figma’s public UI2 design system file with all the features and elements introduced since its last update in 2019. His process is fascinating to follow and shows how much work went into this little update! Also has some great tips on plugins and the organization of a large design system.

During Maker Week, Rogie built a handy plugin for attaching files to the Figma document for hand-off. Great tool for sharing fonts, high-resolution pictures, or other assets with developers.

Last week Figma had their version of a company hackathon, Maker Week. I love everything about this — from dope branding to the inclusion of all teams. In this thread, they go through some of the past projects, but for the last 3 years, I’ve been collecting a (much longer!) list of my own. (Two years later, I’m still jealous of this keyboard by Robert Bye.)

Love when folks share some of the Maker Week projects! Here is a beautiful finished mural.

This is the craziest thing I’ve seen built in Figma (here is a quick preview, but go try it): ​“With friends & coworkers visit a petting zoo, play hide and seek, race go karts, and more! Interactive Figmaland is a multiplayer interactive world built with FigJam widgets. Objects will animate when a character gets close to them.”

Toni Gemayel’s project intended to help Figmates create their profiles in the Community.

The indispensable project brought to us by Toni Gemayel and Georgia Lee.

Now I most definitely want one! See also this cool keycap.

A widget that lets you play a Flappy Bird-like game right inside FigJam. Love the Flippy!

Cool FigJam widgets made by Bersabel Tadesse and Noah Levin. Hope they’ll be published one day!

The New York Times Crossword from 2/20/2012, playable as a Figma prototype through its Interactive Components feature.

A peek behind the scenes of how Noah Levin created the first take on design system analytics (now available on Orgs plan) during one of the past Maker Weeks.

The theme of this Maker Week is Figmaverse, and Anthony DiSpezio created beautiful branding and design system. To the moon!

This is ridiculous, and I absolutely love it! A game plugin built by one of the Figma engineers during their annual Maker Week. Play and create race courses to compete with your friends.

“Twice a year, Figmates are invited to pause day-to-day work and come together for a week of innovation and connection. Our take on a cross-functional hackathon, Maker Week is an opportunity to take a step back and live our values—thinking big and bold ideas, connecting with one another, and putting our individual stamps on the business, community, and culture we’re collectively building.”

A fun team exercise to express themselves.

Another Maker Week project — a plugin to play Asteroids with friends.

Sawyer Hood made a plugin that runs a Gameboy emulator inside of Figma and renders the output as vectors to the canvas. Not available in the community yet, but the source is already on GitHub.

Alex built a plugin concept to automatically generate missing variants and add labels.