Joey Banks shares the features announced at Config 2022 that he is most looking forward to using and implementing in his work. Check out his post for a more in-depth take on Component Properties and advanced settings of Auto Layout.

Figma’s Design Director Noah Levin introduces Product Designers and UX Writers who worked on new features. Great place to discover new talented people to follow!

If you don’t have 30 minutes to watch Dylan’s keynote, check out the What’s New in Figma page showcasing all announced features in a beautiful way.

Figma CEO Dylan Field kicked off Config 2022 with opening remarks and the launch of 15 new features, ranging from favoriting files to a new version of Auto Layout. At this point, I’m more excited about Dylan’s keynotes than Apple’s. Love how every Config makes our lives better by addressing real problems and small annoyances.

Nannearl Brown shows what it’s like to be a UX researcher at Figma who helps other UI/UX designers work efficiently, and what you need to know to get a job like this.

An excerpt from Dylan’s talk on how it took five years from the moment they started working on Figma to the first paid customers.

Interesting thread on a path that Dylan Field took from an intern and college dropout to the CEO of the $10B company.

Joey Banks published a community file with a few Auto Layout resume templates to remix, use, customize, and call your own.

“Select your shapes, and then run the plugin to automatically fill from over 100+ Memojis.”

Figma Designer Advocate Luis Ouriach talks to designers from Automattic about improving collaboration through inclusive workshops and processes.

Matthew Jedraszczyk shares a few solid recommendations on organizing your files and projects in Figma.

A conversation with Jennifer Daniel, a creative director at Google and chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee of the Unicode Consortium, about the effect emoji had on our communication and the process for selecting new emojis.

If you’re attending Config 2022 this week, introduce yourself with this year’s name card.

The nomination process for the Community Awards is over, and now it’s time to vote for your favorite plugins and resources before Config on May 10th.

Wonderful post by Clara Ujiie on her journey from Figma user and client to Designer Advocate.

Interface Inventory is a key research activity before any design system is started. See also the thread by Jan Toman on why he created this resource.

A new tutorial by Fons Mans on how to recreate an Apple Event invite.

Fantastic photo-realistic portrait of Jim Carrey as Robotnik from the Sonic movie.

Vijay has some next-level patience and perseverance — it took 19K vector shapes to create the realistic fur of the panda. Mind-blowing!

Buzz Usborne published a walkthrough of creating scalable and customizable tables in Figma using a single component.