“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.

Steve Schoger looks for the best way to create a dot that responds to the stroke width. There are some creative solutions in the replies, but making a rectangle with width and height set to 0.001 is the best one.

Johan Ronsse makes an argument against overusing advanced Figma features. After breaking down a few complex Variants into smaller Components or being unable to freely move an object in the layout built with Auto Layout, I tend to agree. With great power comes great responsibility.

Noah Levin, Design Director at Figma, collected 20 of his favorite tips and tricks for whipping up something quickly.

Rogie with another collection of hot tips and tricks.

Miguel Cardona on using OpenType features.

Great trick on using Union to preserve the color of icons.

A quick tip from Figma Designer Advocate Anthony DiSpezio. (While on topic, read the story behind color named ​“rebeccapurple”.)

In just 5 minutes, Rogie shares a ton of great tips in a rapid-fire way.