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Speaking of tables, this is a good tip!

As I was reading this post about a digital agency switching to Figma, I realized that I didn’t have a switch post in months. When I started publishing this newsletter almost two years ago, every issue included a few of them. Figma truly became a new de facto standard in the community.

Great overview of plugins and external tools on Awwwards blog.

“Yesterday, we released all of the videos from day two of Config 2021, Figma’s virtual design conference. Here, we’re highlighting some of our favorite moments from the breakout sessions.”

“We asked speakers at Config 2021 to share stories about the challenges, obstacles, and difficult moments that ultimately make products better. Below, we’re sharing some of the highlights.”

In this interview, Figma’s Head of Security Devdatta Akhawe shares his take on building strong teams and tackling huge problems with purpose.

An overview of the processes, methodologies, and Figma features that design teams adopt to ship products and achieve continuous success in their work.

“Twice a year, Figmates are invited to pause day-to-day work and come together for a week of innovation and connection. Our take on a cross-functional hackathon, Maker Week is an opportunity to take a step back and live our values—thinking big and bold ideas, connecting with one another, and putting our individual stamps on the business, community, and culture we’re collectively building.”

“Figma is not conventionally thought to be a file organization tool. When our Product Design department introduced it to sort our ever-growing database, I admit – I was awfully sceptical. It still feels weird to write about how to use Figma for sorting out resources. But lo and behold, it turns out to be great file storage and file organization tool. All you need to do is create a transparent process.”

Read how the Elastic UI design system powering the Elastic Stack connects their design (Figma) and code (React) libraries.

Katie Jane Bailey is a senior enterprise account executive at Figma and the star of Figma In Quarantine musical. In this episode of Hey Salespeople, hear about the parallels between musical theater and sales, advice on pivoting different careers into sales, and how to reframe restrictive thinking around sales methodologies.

The team at Mono shares their most-used and favorite plugins for 2021.

Josh Mateo, Design Systems Lead at Netflix: ​“Effectively scaling and extending a brand into a company’s product is a common challenge I’ve noticed throughout my career. If we deconstruct visual attributes and technical constraints into scalable elements, we can begin to influence the brand from the product, or vice-versa.”

Figma started new Q&A series in their blog. To start, they asked Robyn Kanner 25 quick questions.

If you missed Config 2021, Kaila Shatosky provides a great recap of a few of her favorite talks.

Figma Designer Advocate Chad Bergman shares best practices for using branching.

“Today, we’re introducing branching in beta to better enable collaboration at scale. Designers will have the space to iterate and explore freely, while preserving shared files as a single source of truth. Product Manager Meagan Gamache shares a peek into the 13-month journey to beta and what this means for design system management in Figma.”

A short interview with Noah Levin on the process within Figma’s Design Org.

“While it’s always been possible to animate controls using Figma prototypes, it required some crazy workarounds and a ton of views to be created. With the new functionality, it’s super easy, and it allows you to create some pretty nifty interactive and animating prototypes.”

“I frequently stumble upon time-saving features that I wish I knew about sooner — hopefully, some of these are as exciting for you as they were for me when I discovered them.”