A fully working version of Flappy Bird made with physics-based movement, pseudo-randomized pipe placement, and scoring. Made by Dave Williames using 46 variables.

An in-depth session with Designer Advocate Miggi, Software Engineer Ricky Rajani, and PM Garrett Miller on how to build even higher fidelity prototypes with less complexity.

Starting point for the new advanced prototyping in help articles.

Software Engineer Jon Kaplan, Product Designers Nikolas Klein and Chia Amisola, and Prototyping Product Manager Garrett Miller talk about the newly announced advanced prototyping features.

See how variables, conditional logic, and expressions can let you build more realistic prototypes with fewer frames and connections. Available on Professional plan and up. ​“Prior to variables, prototypes that have changing states e.g. adding items to cart, required duplicating frames and connections to mimic those flows. Now, you can set and modify variable values with prototyping actions to create dynamic prototypes with as little as a single frame and couple of interactions!”

A short video tutorial on building advanced prototypes with variables and two new prototyping actions: Set Variables and Conditional.

Dylan’s recap of all the updates from the keynote, in a brand-new blog. ​“Our vision is to build a new kind of design tool — one that is designed for the entire product development team. Today’s launches reimagine how design and development come together in Figma. I’m excited to introduce three ways we’re doing this: making developers feel at home in Figma with Dev Mode, connecting design to the language of code with variables, and putting a step in between a 2D design and a shipped product with advanced prototyping.”

If you have time for only one thing this week, this should be it. First, Figma CEO Dylan Field introduces new features — variables, auto layout updates, and advanced prototyping. Then, CTO Kris Rasmussen talks about rethinking product building from the ground up and how the new Dev Mode is bringing design and engineering closer together. In the end, Dylan talks about file browser refresh, font previews, and what AI could look like in Figma — wrapping things up by announcing the acquisition of Diagram.

I watched every Config keynote over the years, and this year’s announcements were the most anticipated and ambitious ever. It’s incredible to see how Figma is growing in depth and breadth at the same time, now providing incredibly advanced tools while covering an entire product-building process from brainstorming to design to development. Exciting time to be a maker.

Double Glitch pushes Figma’s prototyping limits with this cool mouse tracking effect.

A new plugin from Bravo Studio for setting up your design files to be converted into a native app.

State management is now standardized for prototypes using interactive components, scrolling, and video so that Figma can memorize the state, share it across the frames, and offer a way to reset. See a deep dive by noodles expert Niko on how to use the new features. (Also, this is my kind of joke.)

A quick demo of the sticky scroll feature introduced as part of the recent Little Big Updates.

With the Walkthrough widget, you can give your stakeholders an interactive tour with smooth animations without being there yourself. You can use it to introduce file content or explain a complex flow.

Christine Vallaure shares a few practical prototyping techniques and advanced tips & tricks. They include using Auto Layout with Smart Animate, stateful transitions with sections, nesting prototypes, interactive components, and more. This video is also available as an article.

While I don’t often prototype interactions, I love the demo of all the use cases in this thread by Ana Boyer! Engineer Jediah Katz is also dropping some tips and tricks and Zander Whitehurst made a cool demo. Don’t miss the sticky scrolling playground file as well.

Honestly, at this point, I gave up on trying to understand how Double Glitch creates their prototypes. All possible Tic Tac Toe moves were manually tied together in this prototype, which is an incredible amount of work. Make sure to get a copy of the file and look under the hood!

“Hear from Sprig’s Product & Designs teams to learn actionable steps to incorporate user feedback as a core part of your design process in Figma.”

Minor performance update that makes animations of interactive components in prototypes much smoother and faster.

Prototypes are now even more powerful, with new ways to upload, edit, and interact with videos. See demos at Figma’s Twitter thread and try it out in the playground. Great follow-up update to the release of videos in October!

“In this livestream, Aashrey Sharma, UX Designer at Epic Games, shares how he prototypes for game design and some principles to consider when creating a game, or more broadly, focus-based navigation prototypes.”