Blank is “the fastest Figma UI kit and design system for your projects.” It includes weekly updates, an extensive component library equipped with all the necessary stuff for your next project, tokens and variables support, light and dark modes, open-source icons, and ready-to-use layouts.
Free website UI kit made by Framer?! You got my interest. “Easily transform your ideas into a fully functional, responsive, no-code SaaS website design within minutes using these free components for Framer and Figma.”
“App icon template for iOS 17. See your app icon in context. Editable app icons so you can borrow shapes and styles for your own creations. Made in P3 color space to assure accurate colors.”
Free plugin for generating linear, radial, and conic gradients interpolated in a variety of color spaces, yielding richer, more brilliant gradients. Live updating so you can easily view and tweak the results.
“Researcher Gus Griffin recently completed one year on artificial intelligence work at Figma. In this conversation with Figma’s Head of Insights, Andrew Hogan, Gus walks through AI feature fatigue, what people really want from artificial intelligence, and how his anthropology background helps him do his work.”
Fast Company calls Figma one of the “most innovative companies in applied AI” for boosting creativity and digital collaboration with the OpenAI-powered Jambot plugin for FigJam. Wild to think that it was born out of an internal two-day AI hackathon just eight months ago. (For additional context, see the above interview with Nilay Patel.)
Figma shared the Config 2024 lineup with more than 75 speakers from around the globe — it’s absolutely bonkers this year, with folks from Teenage Engineering, The Browser Company, Humane, GitHub, Perplexity, Not Boring Software, Artifact, Ableton, Cron, Linear, Work Louder, Vercel, and many many more. This year’s conference tracks will be organized in a few stages, with separate conversations hosted around design systems, development and code, quality, leadership, etc. Can’t wait!
I’m a simple guy — if I see a beautiful physical UI redrawn in Figma, it goes into the newsletter.
Illustrated the dark version of the Yamaha SEQTRAK in @figma ✨ pic.twitter.com/VrCD69kF3K
— Karime 🍤 (@KarimeShrimp) March 12, 2024
Dmitry Novikov from Rive shows how to do soft page curls in Figma.
How I do page curls in @figma #figma pic.twitter.com/DGpqpBTjIh
— Dmitry Novikov (@novikoff) March 12, 2024
“Inspired by the Figma design team’s principles and methods for running design crits, a core group of Figma engineers, led by Ojan Vafai, set out to introduce a process somewhere in between a design crit and a technical review. This was the genesis of Figma’s engineering critiques, dedicated time for the engineering team to brainstorm novel approaches to technical problems, get feedback on existing work, and unblock each other. Today, engineering crits are a core part of our workflow, but it didn’t start out that way.”
An event by Dann Petty on Config Day 0? Count me in! Love the idea of making friends before the conference — that will dramatically change the experience of the next 2 days.
In this episode of the Designing with AI podcast, Mia Blume chatted with Noah Levin, VP of Product Design at Figma, about the emotional ups and downs of the recent acquisition announcement and how it impacted the team, explored the implications of artificial intelligence on creativity and curiosity, leading teams through times of change and learning, decision-making, democratized access to information, and even the concept of love.
Dylan Field joins Sarah and Elad at No Priors podcast to discuss what’s next for an independent Figma, how AI can augment design and speed up the iteration loop, and how Figma is expanding beyond design with products that help the entire product team’s workflow.
Cool illustration by Benten Woodring with strong retro ’80s and ’90s vibes.
This technical guide looks into tools and workflows for building a single design system to support multiple brands, platforms, or products. Lots of great tips for anyone involved in building an advanced design system for white-label products with full control over colors, typography, and visual styles.
An interview with Figma’s CTO Kris Rasmussen about Dev Mode and targeting developers. His take on low-code and no-code tools, like the two featured above: “…we’re actually really supportive of Locofy and also Anima — another example of one of these plugins on the Figma ecosystem. So we’re definitely thinking about their needs as well, as we continue to evolve.“ He added that Figma itself is looking at similar problems, but “at different ends of the spectrum”: “So we’re very much focused on helping to make the actual design process, the act of essentially visualizing what’s in people’s heads and aligning around it, more accessible and easier for the organization to participate in.”
A fascinating story of using Figma to design and craft… quilts! “I would say that I design 80% of my quilts in Figma before I even cut the fabric. Other quilters improvise much more than I do, but I think my UX background and experience preparing assets for engineering teams makes me want to go in with a plan. Everything needs to be measured to the quarter inch, and Figma is a great tool for that.”
“Droit UI is a highly customizable Figma design system with over 7,000 UI components, specifically designed to streamline the workflow of creative professionals, agencies, startups, and SaaS businesses.”
The beauty of Auto Layout in action by Dmitriy Bunin.
Responsive dashboard template made with Figma.#uidesign pic.twitter.com/FnIc3c8QJR
— Dmitriy Bunin (@buninux) March 23, 2023
Ridd with a step-by-step process for nailing dark and light modes in Figma. Love his way of thinking about counterpart colors on the opposite ends of the spectrum for specific use cases — texts, backgrounds, borders, and icons.
It's taken me over 4 years...
— Ridd 🤿 (@ridd_design) February 26, 2024
But I think I finally have the perfect method for nailing ☀️/🌙 modes in @figma
Here's my step-by-step process 👇 pic.twitter.com/tr2QJQZcxG