Gary Simon shows how to create your own Figma Draw brushes by scanning physical samples or generating them with AI. He also offers 30 pre-made stretch brushes as a free resource.

Ran Segall from Flux Academy shares his first impressions from using Figma Sites.

Nice to see that Figma addresses some of the early accessibility concerns with Figma Sites.

Miggi shows how to be more experimental and expressive with Figma Draw features like progressive layer blurs, texture, and a custom brush. Learn to pair these with Smart Animate prototyping, and you can come up with some novel effects.

First, that illustration from Miggi is very cute. Second, I have no idea how these talented minds at the Figma Draw team made all of these complex visual effects exportable to SVG. Mad respect!

Figma created an entire hands-on course on designing a portfolio website from scratch. ​“We’ll cover the basics like shapes, text, and frames, and tap into more advanced features like auto layout, components, and prototyping. By the end, you’ll be ready to start bringing your own ideas to life.”

“Recently, we introduced two new features for improving design & development collaboration. In this video, we’ll explore these new features and show how they can assist you during handoff. First, we added categories to our annotations features which makes it easier to communicate design intent and improves navigation for developers. Second, we added our new eyedropper tool to Dev Mode making it easy to copy color values, styles, and even code syntax.”

“With Figma Buzz, brand designers and marketers have a shared space to build beautiful, on-brand assets at scale.” Non-designers on my team use Canva a lot for event materials and marketing assets, and I can’t wait to set them up with customizable on-brand templates.

Mal highlights a few core features of Buzz — bulk create, make or edit images with AI, and wonderful templates to get started.

Luis shares a bunch of examples made with Figma Make.

Theo with an interesting analysis of Figma Make and why it was introduced now.

“Today we’re introducing Figma Make, a new prompt-to-code capability to help you quickly explore, iterate, and refine — whether it’s generating high-fidelity prototypes or getting into the details in design and code.”

Alex Einarsson teamed up with Figmates Luis Ouriach and Noah Levin to build a plugin for converting your Read​.cv profile into a Figma Design file, which can be easily copied and pasted into Figma Sites as a functional resume website.

“Today, we’re launching Figma Sites, an all-in-one tool for you to design and build custom, responsive websites. Here, we share how you can go from design to production in the most efficient — and expressive — ways.”

I don’t see myself using Draw much, but I’m so happy it’s here for talented artists like Mehak Samaiya.

“Welcome to Figma Draw, a way to design precise-yet-playful illustrations, icons, and more. This playground file teaches how to use our new drawing and vector editing tools through interactive examples, and share some inspo created by product and brand designers using the new features.”

Joel Miller, Design Manager for the Figma Draw team, shares his five favorite design details of the new mode.

“Figma is for practical business application.” The marketing team has been killing it with recent promo videos!

“Figma Draw pairs faster, simpler vector editing with powerful tools for visual expression — so designers of all stripes can bring their vision to life without breaking focus.” One thing I keep wondering about is how much visual design will change in the coming months. Medium and tools define the end result, and Figma just got way more powerful and artistic.

The new curved connectors mode for right-brained people. I’ll stick to my neatly organized ​“elbowed” connectors.