The product design team at VMware switched to working from home during the pandemic and piloted a remote design sprint within one of their groups. In this post, they share the process and takeaways.

Students Who Design is an online platform using Figma to teach product design. In this guest post, they go through students onboarding, organizing files, teaching classes, and providing project feedback all within Figma.

Using virtual post-it notes in Figma to capture feedback and thoughts in remote usability testing.

Figma Community is coming together to share resources, learnings, and best practices as we learn new ways of working together remotely.

A large free kit with hundreds of vector cards, arrows, and elements for creating quick sitemaps, flow charts, and diagrams.

Tiffany Tseng built a documentation platform as one of her dissertation projects as a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab. After graduating and shutting down the service, she couldn’t find any suitable alternatives and ended up building a simplified version of it using Figma components.

How to speed up a tedious process of setting up a basic color system in Figma using plugins Smart Text and Chroma Color.

Truly mind-blowing how this company uses Figma as a CMS for their website through API.

The tutorial explains the concept of content-first design and shows how to connect real content to elements in Figma files.

On a similar note, this post demonstrates how to get data to Figma from product information system (PIM) Crystallize using GraphQL Data Fill plugin. (The plugin is universal and can be used with other GraphQL services as well.)

Not a new help article, but a good reminder. I’ve seen a lot of panic on Twitter during the outage, but as long as you already have files open in the app and don’t close them, all changes should seamlessly sync when a connection is established again. Still, it’s worth manually saving .fig files from time to time while working offline or during the outage to have a backup.

A new show that explores what it takes to compete on customer experience and build an online company that can last decades. In the 2nd episode, co-hosts talk about Figma.

Gleb Sabirzyanov shares all known ways to select layers. There are more than you might have expected!

Luckily, the support team was able to help Cameron locate his files under a different account, but this is a good reminder to backup your cloud files. (Even more so if the account is managed by someone else and your access can be revoked.)

Using his woodworking experience as an inspiration, John W. Long shows how to draw complex gear- and star-like shapes using rotation.

Deep dive into Figma’s incredibly powerful and unique inventions like the Arc tool and Vector Networks.

Great article by Ollie Jackson covering a lot of ground, including how to make prototypes more maintainable, communicate effectively with comments, organize text styles, and even integrate Tailwind CSS framework into a Figma design project. (If Tailwind CSS is your jam there is also a design kit for it in Community Projects section.)