#Tips & Tricks

Practical ways to overcome seven common Figma design issues caused by Auto Layout, constraints, groups, frames, components, and duplicates.

Danny Sapio shares a few best practices on using Figma for max efficiency: make components, use Auto Layout and don’t use groups, apply consistent spacing and styles, keep files organized and archive old designs, learn shortcuts, leverage community files, and present your work smoothly and cleanly.

Never noticed this before, but it’s such a nice touch! 👏

Joey Banks is back with five advanced Figma tips — renaming layers in bulk, selecting all objects based on a specific property, Spacebar’s superpower, private components, and using descriptions to improve search.

Cool tip on adjusting mixed values like object size or Auto Layout padding.

A nice trick from Gleb on how to create a transparent fill that supports a background blur effect.

A cool and creative way to use a component as a light controller.

Always love the events where Figma brings different Figmates for rapid-fire tips! “Whether you’re new to Figma or a pro yourself, tune in to get an inside look on how the teams who build Figma use Figma.”

Super useful tip from Miguel — use Option-W/A/S/D shortcuts (which you may know from gaming) to align elements or points in vector networks. The latter is going to be a massive time-saver for me!

A collection of tips to help improve your design workflow in Figma.

The design team at Medium shares a few of their favorite Figma tips.

Zander shows a few copy-paste features that Figma released back in October.

Ana Boyer shares four tips for illustrating in Figma.

Slides from Marshall Bock’s internal presentation at Google with Figma tips and tricks. I also highly recommend podcast Design Details which Marshall co-hosts with Brian Lovin.

Bonnie Kate Wolf suggests using Unicode emojis in front of the variant name for a quick preview.

As always, Rogie’s tweets gather a lot of fantastic replies.

Patrick Banta compiled a list of design system resources recommended during Schema.

Nadia Sotnikova on how to edit layers in bulk to ensure consistent naming in the design system.

Search for “Resource Use” in Quick Action (⌘/) menu to show the status of resources in your file.

Zander posts short and fun Instagram videos about using Figma.