#Tips & Tricks

Adjust mixed values

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

Transparent fill with background blur effect

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

Light controller for illustration

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

Office Hours: Figma like the Pros

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.”

Office Hours: Figma like the Pros

WASD for aligning points and elements

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!

11 super-simple tips to help improve your Figma workflow

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

A few lesser-known Figma tips

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

3 copy & paste tips

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

Fun Figma illustration tips

Ana Boyer shares four tips for illustrating in Figma.

Advanced Tips and Tricks for Figma Users

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.

Naming arrow Variants

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

A recent trick/tip that you share with everyone

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

Tips shared during Schema

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

Bulk edit layer names in Figma

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

Bulk edit layer names in Figma

Keep an eye on your resources

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

Zander Whitehurst

Zander posts short and fun Instagram videos about using Figma.

Stuff I wish I knew in Figma when I started

Rogie asks for great tips, and the community delivers in replies.

A to Z of Figma: Tips & Tricks!

“In the following steps, you will learn some rapid tips and tricks for Figma. We’ll have a look at 26 Figma features, going from A to Z.”
A to Z of Figma: Tips & Tricks!

Figma Tips

Designer Advocate Rogie built a plugin that helps you up your design game in Figma by watching short tutorial videos from the official YouTube channel.

Reverse layers order in Auto Layout

I shared a tip on using 180° rotation to reverse layers order in an Auto Layout frame, so the first layer is top- or left-most.

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