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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.

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.

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

“I’m thrilled to announce that Storybook Connect for Figma is now in beta. It’s a Figma plugin which brings your stories into the design workspace. That streamlines design handoff and UI review because teams can reference code components alongside their designs.”

Interesting way to organize a large Figma workspace using a department store floor map as a mental model.

Joey Banks shares how he typically names Variants in Figma and the approach he tries to take whenever he is feeling stuck.

What a great idea to let community members nominate their favorite resources. Looking forward to see the winners on May 11th at Config!

Dylan Field shared three steps that Figma takes to become a more global company. First, Figma incorporated in Japan, set up an office in Tokyo, and started working on localizing Figma into Japanese. Second, they’re expanding in EMEA by opening offices in Paris and Berlin. And last but not least, Figma finally added support for RTL languages! Great news for designers working with Arabic, Hebrew, and Urdu who relied on 3rd-party plugins in the past. See thread by Lauren Budorick on why implementing RTL support was a huge undertaking.

FigJam is now available on iPad! Beta testing was announced back in January, and I’m really glad they started with FigJam. While I can’t see myself using the iPad for high-fidelity work, it’s perfect for making low-fidelity sketches with Apple Pencil or laying out flows. See the Twitter thread by Robert Bye, Product Manager of Mobile and Desktop Apps at Figma, on making some of these decisions while building the app.

Anton Kuznetsov shares two workarounds for creating negative spacing with Auto Layout. The easy way is to use Space Between, but there are some limitations, so Anton offers using a frame as a wrapper.

Joey Banks talks about his approach to organizing and naming in Figma.

”Product Manager Emily Lin shares the process of bringing FigJam to life, from beta to GA.“