“Join this learning session where we will share tips and address questions around how to onboard your engineers to Dev Mode. We’ll cover how to adjust your workflows to get the most of our new features, setting up your files and design system, and onboarding your developers.”

Jake Albaugh and Emil Sjölander discuss using AI-based code generation (codegen) tools for augmenting your design to development process, not automating it. ​“Codegen isn’t just an automated, hands-off replacement for translating design to code; it’s best as an augmentation for you to more quickly understand design changes, and to keep your team in sync.”

Molly with step-by-step instructions for using rem units in your text properties. The developers on your team will be grateful for using the same units as they do when it comes to the handoff time!

In the last 2 months Figma quietly shipped more than 200 updates to the Dev Mode workspace 🤯 This article goes through the most important 35 changes and improvements.

Miggi causes the ​“figception” by using Jambot to come up with ideas for making Figma content. Quite amazing to see how it can be used as a tool for thought (or even programming, FWIW).

Jambot is a free widget from Figma to interact with ChatGPT right in FigJam. Use it to create visual mindmaps, take a multi-threaded approach to brainstorming, or generate ideas with teammates and ChatGPT on the same canvas. Quite amazing that it was born during last month’s Maker Week and is already live!

Amber Bravo sat down with Jambot engineers and a designer to learn what inspired them to make the widget, and why they’re so excited to see ChatGPT go multiplayer. As a power user of Logseq, I loved this bit from Daniel Mejia on where the inspiration came from: ​“I’ve been a heavy user of these tools called Networked Thought — especially Roam Research and Logseq — which basically allow you to create pages that link between each other, so you can connect, organize, and trace ideas. More recently, I also found this tool called Albus, which adds a visual feel to interacting with AI, and so I thought there should be a way to connect these concepts to create a potentially useful alternative to ChatGPT.”

You can now embed videos in FigJam. MP4 and MOV files are both supported.

That’s pretty cool, especially if your team has multiple products with distinct color palettes! ​“Introducing custom color palettes in FigJam: you can now create custom color palettes for your team, so your files can match your team’s own aesthetic or company branding (Organization and Enterprise plans only).”

“In this livestream, Jake, Lauren, and Emil dive into Dev Mode, the newest space in Figma built for developers.”

Molly shares her 3 favorite tips from the Config talk ​“Designer and developer workflows unlocked using Dev Mode” — using ​“Compare changes” (my favorite as well, and the first thing I showed my team!), testing components in the Playground, and switching between the design and Dev Mode by pressing the Shift‑D shortcut.

Emily Brody, Product Marketing Manager at Figma, writes about the go-to-market strategy for the Dev Mode and how the team prepared for the launch and triaged bugs, requests, and feedback during the first two weeks.

Christine Vallaure wrote about one of the most under-the-radar new features of the Dev Mode — units conversion. Now, you can design with pixels and then translate them to rem or other relative units in code. (Thanks for sharing the friend link with Figmalion, Christine!)

CSS Evangelist Kevin Powell made a video walkthrough of the new Dev Mode specifically for other developers. Share it with your team!

An insightful thread about Dev Mode from Joel Miller, a Product Designer on Dev Tools at Figma: ​“It’s the culmination of an ~18-month journey, filled with countless riffs, prototypes, reviews, PRDs, and PM mocks. Here’s my story of how we got here.”

Linear wins the most over-the-top plugin page award. The new plugin enables designers and engineers to collaborate seamlessly without the need to switch tools or context by creating and linking to issues directly from Figma, navigating design tasks in context, and collaborating across teams and tools.

If you’re ready to dive in, this help article is a good introduction to starting using Dev Mode.

“The Figma for VS Code extension lets you navigate and inspect design files, collaborate with designers, track changes, and speed up design implementation — all without leaving your development environment.”

An in-depth session with practical perspectives on how designers and developers can leverage brand new Figma capabilities to unlock tighter collaboration with one another, prepared by four Figmates — Developer Advocate Jake Albaugh, Group Product Manager Avantika Gomes, Designer Advocate Lauren Andres, and Software Engineer Jenny Lea.

This playground is an interactive guide to the Dev Mode, made with two audiences in mind. Designers will get to know how to set up files for handoff, connect design and code, and explain Dev Mode to developers, while developers will learn how to track design status and changes, inspect designs, get relevant code snippets, and use plugins to extend and connect workflows.