Articles

Patrick Morgan writes about his way of structuring common design artifacts within Figma files. I find his approach of grouping them into Features, Libraries, and Presentations with a few sub-types quite interesting and useful.

Joey Banks on component properties: ​“In the past few weeks, I’ve had the chance to become more comfortable creating components that contain component properties. What has helped me the most has been to think of this new feature as an additional way, not a separate way, to further organize and create components and variants that scale with the library and system.”

A condensed summary of a Config talk by the Intuit Design System Team on creating a brand new Figma plugin to promote Intuit’s design system decisions and deliver them directly to their designers.

A solid collection of plugins to help you design, manage and operate design systems in Figma.

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.

An interview with Thierry Blancpain, co-founder of Grilli Type, one of the font foundries that were a part of Figma’s variable fonts beta.

If you’re feeling lost and unsure of where to start with Config’s 68 sessions, this article provides a good round-up of conference highlights.

Patrick Morgan created a useful library of Figma helpers and wrote about designing systems and tools for yourself to facilitate your own unique design workflow.

Molly Hellmuth discusses five major changes to the Auto Layout introduced at Config 2022.

The team at One North discusses ten of their favorite plugins.

Figma announced a prototype screen reader beta that includes support for text notes, alt text for images, and the ability to interact with and navigate through prototypes with buttons and keyboard actions like tabbing.

José Torre, Staff Product Designer at Shopify, gave a Config talk about getting the most out of design systems. The article he published earlier this year is a great summary of his thoughts on this topic.

Nathan Curtis wrote a really detailed 3‑part series on building a workflow to assure the quality of design system assets.

Congrats to all ten winners! Highly recommend going through the list and checking out these fantastic resources.

Figma built a fantastic interactive page showing great possibilities provided by variable fonts and how to use them in Figma. It’s been a year since Toni Gemayel built the Variable Fonts plugin, and I’m happy it finally became a native feature.

Andrey Okonetchnikov makes a case for thinking twice before introducing a boolean property when modeling an API of the component as it can hide complexity and introduce impossible states.

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.

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.

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.

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