A new Figma tutorial from Headway, showing how to use Figma UI Kits to bring design ideas to life faster.

It’s all too easy to focus your design system on the perfect component, missing out on the aspect that’ll ensure your success – collaboration. Join Zalando’s Louise From and Julia Belling to understand how they created, educated, and scaled their internal design system.

500+ free vector icons in five different styles.

A robust library of over a hundred wireframing components to faster explore more ideas.

Curated takeaways from Config Europe on the importance of trust amongst teammates, with clients, and in the broader design community.

More highlights from the conference on how to build trust. ​“Trust is the backbone of an open and inclusive culture, and the right processes — which govern how you design, develop, and work together as a team — can, in turn, result in more open and inclusive products.”

Josh is an engineer on the design system team. Here, he shares advice for new grads as they think about taking the next step: choosing the right company, finding a role that fits their interests, and making the transition to the working world.

A regular reminder that if you’ve got an iPad, Figurative app and Pencil Pal plugin are must-haves.

Tammy Taabassum created a design system in Figma for an existing product following the design thinking process. She started by assessing the situation (Discovery), set goals (Define), and only then built components and unified colors.

UserOnboard goes through an onboarding experience of Figma.

Dylan Field talking to Marc Andreessen about the modern education system. The Q&A was recorded in August 2020 and originally appeared in Figma’s ​“Back to School?” interview series.

Dylan Field: ​”Today, I’m excited to announce that Figma is opening a hub office in London, which will serve as our HQ for the EMEA region.”

Rasmus joined Figma in 2016 as a Lead Designer and one of the early employees. He just left the company, and in this post looks back at what he worked on over the years.

MDS designs a quick concept of the would-be iOS app inside of Figma.

Fun Twitter thread by Rogie with fantastic examples of illustrations made in Figma.

Miguel Cardona shows how to use components and instances to create some cool illustrative effects.

Somehow I missed this article earlier this year, but it’s a good resource for creating an automated process to keep design tokens of the design tool in sync with the code behind it. They achieve this by setting up a Node.js server that generates Sass and Tailwind files with all the variables from the Figma API.

A guide to creating the perfect palette with Material Design. While it’s not strictly specific to Figma, the recommended Baseline Design Kit makes it easy to preview a custom color palette in the Material Design system.

Watch Dylan Field, CEO of Figma, talk about Figma in Europe and demo new design systems features.

Lennon Cheng shares his experience of creating Figma plugins to improve and automate the design process. He is a designer without much development experience, and this makes his take especially interesting.