#Rogie King

Rogie: Preserve icon colors when you swap out icons

Using a Union boolean operator to preserve colors is a mind-blowing hack! 🤯

Use the Inspect panel

The Inspect panel was also updated this week to make translating design to code easier. Now it provides extra details like documentation, parent component, and animation behaviors. Watch a quick demo by Rogie.

Adding hover states

Rogie shows how to add a hover state and make nav component instances inherit all main component triggers.

GIF

A plugin by Rogie to play GIF animations in the editor (!), make memes, and export animated GIFs straight from Figma.

“Figma isn’t for illustrati…”

Fun Twitter thread by Rogie with fantastic examples of illustrations made in Figma.

Office Hours: Complex Component Architecture

Rogie and Joey talk about best practices for building cards, dialogs, navigations, forms, and other forms of complex components.
Office Hours: Complex Component Architecture

Build it in Figma: Create a Design System IV — Testing

Testing a design system to see if the component library is robust enough in real-world scenarios.
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Build it in Figma: Create a Design System V — Documentation

Rogie shows the best practices for documenting your design system using Figma and other tools.
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Confessions that will get your Figma design card revoked

The replies are fun, but also highly educational about all the wrong ways to do things in Figma.

Build It in Figma: Create a Design System — Components

“Part 2⁄5. Add to your design system by building foundational components and organize them using pages, frames, names, and descriptions.”
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Cmd/Ctrl + right-click the object to show child/parent objects

Rogie shares a good tip on navigating nested layers.

Office hours: Building illustration systems with Pablo Stanley

Using the Blush plugin and illustrations from artists around the world, Rogie and Pablo Stanley will create an illustration system with components, assets, and constraints.

Office hours: Building illustration systems with

Build it in Figma: Design a Responsive Website

In the first part, Rogie uses constraints and components to build navigation that scales from mobile to desktop. In the second part, he shows how to use Auto Layout to design flexible grids, hero, and card components that adapt to any browser size.

Build it in Figma: Design a responsive website

Build it in Figma: Design a Cohesive Icon Set

Noah Jacobus from Metalab and Designer Advocate Rogie King create a cohesive icon set for a mobile app.

Build it in Figma: Design a cohesive icon set

Office Hours: 30 Time-Saving Tricks From Figma Experts

Anthony and Rogie, Designer Advocates at Figma, share their favorite lesser-known Figma tips, including keyboard shortcuts, to help you save time.

Office Hours: 30 time-saving tricks from Figma

Build it in Figma: Designing a Book App: Prototyping and Demos

The 3rd and final part of Rogie’s series on designing a book app.

Build it in Figma: Designing a book app,

@rogie: Set opacity by pressing the number keys

Useful keyboard shortcut to keep in mind!

Office Hours: Mastering Components

“Join Designer Advocates Joey and Rogie as they dive into components: see them leverage constraints, apply auto-layout, explore negative frame spacing, styles, and more.”

Office Hours: Mastering components

@rogie: Contacts icon and Find My icon

In case you missed some textures lately.

Hacking Figma Prototypes with Overlays, Components, and Frames

Designer advocates Tom Lowry and Rogie King dive deep into some lesser-known capabilities of Figma’s prototyping tools.

Hacking Figma Prototypes with Overlays,

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