The most recent update to Adobe Illustrator broke copying vectors to paste into Figma. Rogie shows how to fix this.

Figma turned 13 on August 13th! To celebrate, Rogie streamed the live process of drawing a birthday card with portraits of Dylan and Evan — what a long way from the early sketches!

Rogie walks through quality of life updates for Figma Draw’s variable width stroke feature. Now you can select a width point and double click to enter a numerical value; after selecting a width point, you can go to the next one with Tab and the previous one with Shift-Tab shortcuts; with a custom width profile, you can see a preview of the shape or edit the width profile from the menu; hold Control to disable Snap to Pixel for more precision; select two width points by holding Shift and resize both together. 

Rogie King introduces a new brush type in Figma Draw — scatter brushes. Make sure to read a fun behind-the-scenes look at how Rogie and Molly worked together to create and name the new brushes.

Rogie is just showing off with this beautiful artwork.

Building a Figma plugin with a server side and API calls in 2 hours using Claude AI.

Rogie King has another example of roughening up icons for wireframes.

What a great conversation between two wonderful human beings. Rob Hope goes deep as an interviewer and does a huge amount of research and production work for his Yo! Podcast. Rogie is a pillar of the design community and ​“a larger than life designer who rides the intersection of art and code”. I spent an hour watching an entire interview in one sitting on TV and enjoyed how personal and intimate it felt. Discussion covers the role of the Designer Advocate, the Figma community, creating Figma plugins, and — of course — horror movies.

A cool tutorial on creating an animated card background using Rogie​’s popular Noise & Texture plugin — fast-forward to the end to see the final result.

A quick tutorial on creating light rays inspired by Rogie and Vijay with the Noise & Texture plugin.

At this point, Vijay is just showing off. Awesome iteration on an earlier shaders experiment by Rogie.

Rogie with a mini-tutorial on making Mario Kart-inspired resizable buttons with fun shapes.

That’s what I love about this community so much. Fons Mans shared an idea for the plugin, Rogie stepped in and offered to build it, and three days later they already had some WIP. Don’t know if I need this plugin yet, but seeing this collaboration makes me so happy.

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.

Rogie King reflects on the launch of new selling tools and the Figma Creator Fund for the Figma Community, and why these additions are important for the next generation of the Figma Community. I’ve been thoroughly impressed with Figma’s openness to the community feedback while preparing this release, and Rogie’s advocacy for the needs of the design community.

Rogie’s plugin for generating tiling noise and textures for fills and strokes is finally out of beta and publicly available. It’s essential for any illustration or art work. Check out a video walkthrough and upvote it on ProductHunt.

Vijay’s roundup of special effects achieved with Rogie’s new Noise & Texture plugin. Don’t miss his Twitter thread with some context and details.

Vijay keeps teasing Rogie’s new plugin Noise & Texture. You’ll notice that it’s currently in beta and requires a code to unlock, but if you look closely at this thread you may find one.

Rogie comes to the rescue and explains how to preserve a fill color when icons are overridden and swapped. It’s worth keeping a layer name consistent across icons in the library if you plan to use them in different colors.

Rogie talks with designers from Applied Intuition about balancing the inherent complexity of the autonomous vehicles development process with simple UX solutions that span both 2D and 3D spaces

A new plugin by Rogie King fixes the most common issues with importing and copy-pasting SVGs from Adobe Illustrator to Figma. Huge time saver if you’ve ever had to deal with these problems manually!