#Tips & Tricks

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.

“A few weeks back, we asked ten Figmates across engineering, product, design, and research to share what they love most about Figma, including their favorite use cases and tricks. During a recent live stream, they walked through speed tips and keyboard shortcuts, brainstorming exercises, and their most-used templates — all in five minutes or less.”

“We brought ten Figmates together to share their tips and tricks with you. We dove into features, covered getting started in Figma, plugins, and speed tips. You’ll hear from engineers, designers, designer advocates, product managers, and researchers.”

“Here is a quick workflow with multiple batch operations that can show you how to import, rename, organize, componentize and publish assets.”

“Quickly master your documents pages and frames using simple shortcut keyboard actions.”

In this part of Figma in 5, Rogie talks about Design Systems with a focus on components.

A nice trick to work around some of Auto Layout’s limitations.