“A few weeks back, we asked ten Figmates across engineering, product, design, and research to share what they love most about Figma, including their favorite use cases and tricks. During a recent live stream, they walked through speed tips and keyboard shortcuts, brainstorming exercises, and their most-used templates — all in five minutes or less.”
Students of Justus Wunschik’s online class came together to build a beautiful SimCity-inspired city with Figma.
A new tutorial from Blush, based on Pablo Stanley’s Figma Crash Course on YouTube. “Learn the basics of Figma’s new Auto Layout and speed up your creative workflow with this awesome feature.”
Creating responsive prototypes with Figma and Anima.
Komal Javed from Shopify shows how to set up your Figma projects to meet the needs of your whole team. Project Index Template is available in Figma Community.
Johan Ronsse makes an argument against overusing advanced Figma features. After breaking down a few complex Variants into smaller Components or being unable to freely move an object in the layout built with Auto Layout, I tend to agree. With great power comes great responsibility.
Uber took a programmatic approach to create 256 new components for map markers. “By automating the construction of the markers, I was able to avoid human-error and efficiently generate the full set of variants. Programmatically testing the components allowed me to thoroughly validate them under multiple scenarios and be confident of their quality.”