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Jeremy Dizon discusses best practices that his team followed to create and maintain multiple Lyft Product Language component libraries in Figma.

Figma Community went out of beta, and over the last two weeks was rolled out to all users.

If you still don’t use Google Sheets Sync, this article will show what you are missing out on.

The Headway design team on managing a design system and multi-tiered UI kits in Figma. Love their usage of status badges and overlays.

The team at Kalamuna moved its brand guide from a static PDF file to Figma. ​“Figma is the perfect tool for putting together a living document to define a growing and changing brand design system.”

Cool integration with a no-code app. ​”Bubble offers a powerful point-and-click web editor and cloud hosting platform that allows users to build fully customizable web applications and workflows.”

Jenning Chen, an intern on Figma’s design systems team, built the recent updates to the style picker over the course of her summer internship. In this article, she reflects on her time at Figma: expectations, onboarding remotely, and managing a feature update from inception to launch.

If you still don’t use Google Sheets Sync, this article will show what you are missing out on.

A few recommendations for keeping Figma files organized and easy to browse.

How to keep an aspect ratio of a nested element when resizing its parent. Really smart workaround!

In Issue #16, I shared the article ​“Worry less about spacing in Figma”. In the new article, Lennon Cheng continues on the idea and shows to introduce spacers into the development handoff process.

Jason Crabtree shares a list of his favorite plugins. Good recommendations.

A while ago, Rafal Tomal recorded an hour-long video on getting started in Figma, and now he shares why he switched to it completely.

The team at Youse switched to Figma from Sketch, Marvel, Zeplin, and Google Drive. They tried to solve their problems with Abstract, but gave up and moved everything to Figma after a few months. Not only that improved collaboration and handoff process within teams but also saved almost 65% of tools cost.

Three interesting challenges for the community. A good way to see how well you know Figma!

Designing and playing Star Trek Adventures in Figma, with a group of people who never used the app before.

Another developer’s perspective on using Figma. Nice to see how shared resources and available UI kits empower developers to design on their own.

A frontend developer’s glance at Figma. His view of Figma as a GitHub for designers rings very true to me.

Figma released Universal Search in April, and now they rolled out Deep Search, which allows to search for files that contain a given word or phrase.

List view for color styles. In-line details for text styles. Search. The edit icon is available in the list view. Fantastic update!