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.
I never knew you could adjust mixed values in Figma like this pic.twitter.com/8bmMRJb0iT
— Joey 🙃 (@mrhammn) June 30, 2022
A nice trick from Gleb on how to create a transparent fill that supports a background blur effect.
Epic @figma tip I learned from @edpratti (Material You file)
— Gleb Sabirzyanov ❤️ (@gleb_sexy) June 1, 2022
Transparent fill that supports background blur effect! 🤯🔥
1. Create a white fill
2. Change the fill blend mode to Darken/Multiply
3. Optional: create a style “Transparent”
1% or 0.01% opacity trick is dead! 💀 pic.twitter.com/U63DVuvTNQ
A cool and creative way to use a component as a light controller.
Having a light controller for illustration, just because #figma pic.twitter.com/5LJFHbCBR0
— Papa Drag n' Drop (@kennethmahakim) April 21, 2022
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!
Option (alt) + W,A,S,D (⬆️,⬅️,⬇️,➡️) align shortcuts in @figma can be used when editing vector paths / points. https://t.co/YvRDIZNMlB pic.twitter.com/giLDWMj30x
— miggi from figgi (@miggi) February 11, 2022
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.
✂️ 3 super @figmadesign copy & paste updates #ux #ui #figma #memorisely pic.twitter.com/tL13o58dG0
— Zander Whitehurst ⚡️ (@zander_supafast) January 21, 2022
Ana Boyer shares four tips for illustrating in Figma.
🧵Some fun Figma illustration things I learned from our DA team the other day:
— Ana Boyer (@_AnaBoyer) December 17, 2021
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.
This is an amazing @figmadesign hack from @mattmatize for naming arrow variants. Add the unicode emoji in front of the variant name so folks can quickly see what they are going to be placing without reading. pic.twitter.com/JNEb3tdaGQ
— Bonnie Kate Werewolf (@bonniekatewolf) October 8, 2021
As always, Rogie’s tweets gather a lot of fantastic replies.
What's a recent @figmadesign trick/tip you've found out that you share with everyone?
— ˗ˏˋrawr-gieˎˊ (@rogie) October 13, 2021
Patrick Banta compiled a list of design system resources recommended during Schema.
If anyone wanted all of the links to the tips shared out during @figmadesign #Schema2021 yesterday, I've compiled the list below - hopefully I didn't miss anything! 🧵
— Patrick Banta (@pbanta) October 8, 2021
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.
Struggling with performance in @figmadesign?
— Denislav Jeliazkov (@DenisJeliazkov) September 24, 2021
By hitting CMD + / and searching for "Resource Use" you can see what is the status of resources in your Figma file. pic.twitter.com/zd7xzeweLU
Zander posts short and fun Instagram videos about using Figma.
I’m creating a resource for y’all on stuff I wish I knew in Figma when I started. Can you throw me your favorites?
— ˗ˏˋrogieˎˊ (@rogie) August 4, 2021