Miggi with two great tips on managing gradients. I wish we didn’t need to resolve to a 100 pixels square hack, but often it gets the job done!
Someone asked yesterday about managing gradients in @figma, here are two ways to handle.
— @miggi@masto.ai (@miggi) January 5, 2023
1. Double click on a gradient stop to distribute evenly.
2. You can nudge / big nudge gradient stops. On 100x100 square, I can move over 5 times in nudges of 10 to get placement at 50%. pic.twitter.com/SqkwTPHxcc
Miggie shows how to prototype overlay transitions for thumbnails using interactive components. This tutorial is intermediate and covers the use of overlays, Auto Layout, interactive components, and placing images.
Great team activity from Miggie — build a gingerbread house using the provided virtual gingerbread cookies and sweets. In the end, you can even make your own card.
Ana and Miggie are back streaming their experiments with Figma prototypes. This time they cover drag interactions and video among other things.
A Twitch stream of Ana Boyer and Miggi Cardona diving deep into Figma prototyping.
Copy-pasting objects from FigJam to Figma never disappoints.
If you want to have an embedded Youtube video in your @Figma file, like to document process, share resources, or have a contextual walkthrough.
— miggi but espooky 👻 (@miggi) October 23, 2022
1.) Paste the YT link in a FigJam file
2.) Copy-Paste the playable video object into Figma
3.) That's it!#Figmatip pic.twitter.com/x3KrtKuudS
Miggi shows how to do hanging opening quotes with Auto Layout.
A pet peeve of mine is seeing opening quotes set within a block of type. Using Auto layout and absolute position, you, too can make better quote blocks in @figma. #figmatip
— miggi but spooky 👻 (@miggi) October 18, 2022
More about optical margin alignment: https://t.co/dSTmOWEgUy
& in CSS: https://t.co/dCBrtS8lFx pic.twitter.com/kfMQ6sJ5mE
A super useful tip by Miggi. The power of combining FigJam with Figma always keeps surprising me.
Blur out areas in your FigJam file with some @figma background blur shapes pasted in! #figmatip
— professor figma (@miggi) September 6, 2022
👉 Make a white rectangle in Figma
👉 Set blend mode to multiply
👉 Add background blur effect set to 50
👉 Paste into FigJam, resize + place over objects pic.twitter.com/TXhQmpPIyc
Easy and fast way to access a pre-defined color palette in FigJam.
Here is a @figma FigJam process tip. Paste in screenshots of palettes when using the marker tool. Hit the "i" key for the eye dropper tool to select colors from the palettes. Great for quick ideation and grey scale UI wireframes. #figmatip. pic.twitter.com/sfAjcAwksv
— professor figma (@miggi) September 6, 2022
Miguel with a few useful shortcuts for adjusting font size, weight, letter spacing, and line height.
Happy Monday! Here are some some great shortcuts when deep in the weeds of type exploration in @figma.
— miggity miggity mac (@miggi) August 1, 2022
Easily adjust font size, weight, letter spacing and line height using modifier keys and the <, > symbols. On Windows, swap out "alt" for "⌥" and "ctrl" for "⌘"#figmatip pic.twitter.com/byFfkVWUMe
Miggi with a mind-blowing trick for selecting items inside of the tight spots.
Haven't posted a #FigmaTip in a while, so here goes.
— miggi from figgi (@miggi) July 28, 2022
In @figma, draw a selection then hold the space bar to move the selection over the objects you want to select. Great for getting items inside of those tight spots. 🎉 pic.twitter.com/zEcCb90Jyk
Miggi shows how to create a FigJam file, maximize the FigJam collaboration features, navigate the FigJam toolbar, add text, images, and stickers to your file, use sections for organization, and finally, how to invite others to your FigJam file.
Miggi shows how to use images as masks.
Miggi shows how to make a reusable and flexible tooltip component set using Auto Layout, absolute positioning, constraints, and component properties.
Miggi plays with component properties, Auto Layout slots method, and Interactive Components to make some fun modular content prototypes.
Another great shortcut from Miggie to avoid going into the advanced type settings menu — click on the “Fixed size” icon while holding Option (Alt) to enable truncated text. (With so much free space to the right, I wonder what’s the justification for hiding this option in the menu.)
Option (alt) + click on 'Fixed' text to convert text field to have truncate text behavior in @figma. #figmatip pic.twitter.com/aDhkDL7b3j
— Miggi (@miggi) May 19, 2022
Miggie with a pro tip on Auto Layout — typing in “auto” as the spacing value will change the spacing mode from Packed to Space Between.
One more late night @figma auto layout tidbit.
— Miggi (@miggi) May 19, 2022
If you type in "auto" as the spacing value, it will change the behavior from packed, to space between! pic.twitter.com/rnW1oqoOPy
Another drawing challenge from Miguel. Love the simplicity of his approach and how well the icon has turned out.
Another attempt at building a fire icon in @figma for today's prompt by @disco_lu non-destructive Boolean operations FTW! pic.twitter.com/eIauhyayFt
— miggi from figgi (@miggi) February 14, 2022
How would you create a spiral in Figma without any external tools? Miggi’s answer is in the thread, but some of the solutions from others are really smart and creative too!
Quick challenge.... without plugins, external apps, or @jsngr's magical tools, how would you make this in @figma? Show me your solution in the thread... Ill show you how I did it tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/iTUg2Te0OK
— miggi from figgi (@miggi) February 15, 2022