There are plenty of icon sets out there, but this one includes 3,198 free SVG icons for popular brands, which is pretty uncommon.

For those of us missing the good old days of iOS 6 and Corinthian leather: ​“Relive the golden era of skeuomorphic design with the Legacy iOS UI Kit.”

Jake made a plugin that brings the power of CSS color-mix() into Figma. Use it to generate swatches, variable ramps, and solid or gradient fills. I highly recommend watching Jake’s video if you’re unfamiliar with this CSS notation.

Maria Christopher from Uber, on the challenges of managing a growing design system: ​“Over time, we struggled with component redundancy and system inconsistency. The increasing complexity from the sheer amount of components, variants, and customizations began to undermine the effectiveness and integrity of our system. It turns out, we weren’t alone. This mirrors a broader trend in the design industry, where the focus is shifting towards critically evaluating and simplifying systems, rather than just adding more layers of complexity.”

I look forward to the next release of Supa Palette with support for OKLCH and reusable configs!

Ridd argues that the pendulum has swung too far, and designers hating on design systems are missing the point. You might not need an enterprise-grade system with all bells and whistles, but every product can benefit from a set of simple components: ​“I’ll suggest design systems are most valuable when you DON’T know what the product will be… Investing in a set of core components minimizes the number of knobs you need to turn in order to iterate.”

Fast Company on Figma’s rebrand: ​”Today, the company is launching a refreshed visual identity that represents its growing, post-Adobe breakup ambitions to be, well, just about everything. Figma’s been making moves to expand beyond its founding idea of being being a single product company for designers, to a multi-product company for multi-role creative teams. Now, the company’s refreshed brand is catching up and speaking to an expanded audience that includes developers and supporting team members like project managers, who help bring a design deliverable to life.”

Olivia Hingley for It’s Nice That: ​“Sitting at the core of the concept is a new brand idea: ​‘build by design’. Short and sweet, the idea reinstates that design is more than just a skill, department or process, it’s the ​“gravitational centre” of the brand. Three brand beliefs come from this idea: ​‘design is everyone’s business’, which speaks to the flexibility and broad nature of design, while the second, ​‘craft as a differentiator’, centers on the care and attention to detail that Figma propagates. […] And, the third and final belief is ​‘the idea is just the beginning’.”

I love how Figma showcased the community work on a giant screen at Times Square.

A deep dive into Figma’s brand refresh. ​“Figma’s visual identity has gotten a bold refresh. From playful primitives to a vibrant new palette, we’re unveiling our latest brand evolution — one that speaks to all product builders.” 

Zigma connects your design system to the production code, directly syncing design variables from Figma into your GitHub projects. Made by the NextUI team.

A new library of 514 modern handcrafted icons is available in two visual styles.

Shu Ha Ri is a robust design system meticulously crafted for Figma, offering many essential features and a generous free version. It revolves around modularity and empowers designers to efficiently create diverse instances with a single master component.

Apple updated their iOS 18 UI kit to include iPhone 16 Pro bezels (in all colors), updated templates to match new display dimensions, and several other bug fixes and improvements.

“Show Them” is a new course on landing page optimization by Rob Hope. He hosts one of my favorite design podcasts and curates an inspirational collection of single-page websites at One Page Love. Rob spent years analyzing landing pages, so when he shares knowledge, I’m listening! To see what his content is like, check out the bonus video on Social Proof.

The course is launching on November 19th and offers a generous 70% discount until September 18th, which I immediately took advantage of. (Not affiliated, just love Rob’s work.)

Nathan Curtis: ​“In 2015, I established three models of forming teams for scaling design systems: solitary, central, and federated. The article progressed through each, scoffing at solitary, considering central, and favoring federated based on the section’s positioning and proportional length. […] In this article, I’ll dig into how federated is not a choice, it’s a facet. In practice, it’s never pursued first and never without central investment. In most cases, it’s optional and its outcomes can be so expensive and frustrating that it’s not worth it. Even worse, positioning federated as a primary objective anchors so many stakeholder myths to unwind that it damages system potential and even threatens its existence.”

Last June, Figma acquired Diagram — one of the most promising startups building at the intersection of design and AI. Their small team of five joined Figma to build the AI features announced at this year’s Config.

During the last few weeks, 3 out of 5 ex-Diagram teammates left Figma. Founding Engineer Sidd announced his departure first and soon joined Vercel to work on v0. Founder & CEO Jordan Singer and Founding Product Designer Marco Cornacchia announced their resignations on the same day. I’ll be keeping an eye on Design Engineer Vincent van der Meulen and ML Engineer Andrew Pouliot.

For a recent project at work, I reviewed popular UI libraries, and it was clear that shadcn/​ui is one of the most comprehensive, customizable, and common choices. I had only a few concerns, one being a lack of a modern Figma library companion — the community file hadn’t been updated in 2 years, didn’t support variables or customization, and missed new components and properties.

I braced myself to spend a week recreating all components in Figma from scratch when Matt Wierzbicki announced his commercial Figma library of shadcn/​ui components. Matt spent years developing Ant Design System, so he is not new to projects of this scale. We licensed the library for our team, and so far, it seems to be very well-made and highly customizable. The product is very new and doesn’t even have a website yet, but it came out at such a perfect moment for me that I still want to shout it out.

It was a great episode of the ​“In the File” series, where Luis Ouriach talks to the designer Yann-Edern Gillet and engineer Andreas Eldh from Linear about the recent update of their design system. I love their use of the LCH color space to generate a consistent palette and tight collaboration between design and engineering.

“We’ve improved the experience for moving files. Now you can bulk move a group of files and find the right destination more easily.”