Good tips on how to avoid running out of memory in Figma. In short, it’s worth keeping an eye on hidden layers, complex components, and large assets in your Figma files.
Figma Designer Advocate Luis Ouriach talks to designers from Automattic about improving collaboration through inclusive workshops and processes.
Fons Mans recreated the latest designs from Apple, Instagram, and Shopify in Figma. Great educational resource.
Really nuanced and detail-oriented recreation of a standard macOS button by Nathan Manousos.
In his new newsletter, Joey Banks answers one of the popular questions — what’s the difference between groups and frames in Figma, and when should you use one over the other?
A very solid list of recommendations, and not only for new designers.
The team at Lokalise collected the most creative ways to use Figma and talked with designers from LinkedIn, Netflix, King, and Bumble to reveal how they work with it.
🧵Things to know about reducing memory usage and file bloat in Figma:
— Ana Boyer (@_AnaBoyer) August 20, 2021
Part of Rafal Tomal’s video series on his design process. Don’t miss the 2nd part as well.
Wanted to share something that I wish I had known sooner in @figmadesign, which is that it's possible to individually copy & paste effects just by clicking near the edge of them, within the Properties Panel, and then using ⌘C/⌘V. 📋 pic.twitter.com/HNnh19sNQT
— Joey Banks (@joeyabanks) April 9, 2021
Gumroad (which I love and use to sell my book) hosted a live design session using Figma and Clubhouse. What a great idea for gathering customer feedback in real time!
This afternoon we were able to do a live @gumroad design session on @joinClubhouse with @figmadesign. Real time customer feedback without scheduling 100 Zoom calls. Amazing! pic.twitter.com/13NGkyU6C0
— Jack Zerby (@jackzerby) February 17, 2021
A creative way of using components to create custom graphics.
Here is like 10% of the design system for my client. In this example, I have 2 components with the shape of lunchboxes + a few for details (like stickers) and inside those lunchboxes, I have variables with different foods :) so I can prepare graphics soooo fast :) pic.twitter.com/zfHNL3fIpx
— Arkadiusz Palki (@arkadiuszpalki) February 2, 2021
What an unusual use case for Figma, but the end result looks great!
One of the challenges in designing stained glass art is coming up with harmonious colour palettes and textures. Glass is expensive material. So - today I made a digital glass colouring book for our pieces (in @figmadesign), so we can collab on materials before we start building. pic.twitter.com/K03We2lfzz
— Nat Cooper (@natacoops) January 30, 2021
Smart workaround for selecting objects with a transparent background. I also like a follow-up from Gleb Sabirzyanov in the replies on ensuring that developers won’t implement this hack.
You may know this already, but this is a little trick I use for making selecting and swapping instances easier in @figmadesign. If your component has a transparent background give it a fill of 0.001. Now you can select it while holding down Cmd/Ctrl. pic.twitter.com/ZUb09AquAP
— Gavin McFarland (@gavinmcfarland) December 17, 2020
Little #figmatip to head into the weekend.
— luis. (@disco_lu) October 16, 2020
I only just found out that you can rearrange items with the little pink dot on your selected components / Frames / shapes.
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