Miggi started a YouTube channel with his design shorts, Figma tips, and tutorials. Start with his recent series on making icons in Figma.

From December 5th to 16th, Figma Designer Advocates add a new tip to this community file every day. So far they’ve covered Auto Layout shortcuts, color override preservation in icons, presenting with the Figma app, and a few oldies but goodies.

Dann Petty asks for the best Figma tips for setting up a design system, and there are lots of golden nuggets in the replies. One of my favorites is “to not over eagerly start the design system when you start a project”.

Designer Advocate Mal shares one hot community file, plugin, and widget.

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.

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

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.