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“How design tool played a decisive role for businesses such as Microsoft, Uber and 8 more well-known companies.”

Now it’s possible to embed private Figma files into the tools used by the whole team, like Dropbox Paper, Notion, Coda, Jira, etc.

Noah Levin, Design Director at Figma, dives deep into their day-to-day operations — meeting cadences, rituals, and anything else that helps the design team stay connected and efficient.

Zeplin redesigned their Figma plugin, improving export experience and solving some of the performance issues.

Framer Web team shows how to move from visual design to interactive prototyping in minutes, thanks to their recently announced Figma importer.

Part 1 covered color palettes, typography styles, and shadows. In this part, Marc talks about icon sets.

Alessio Calvo talks about fears and motivation for building his first side project, Artisan Kit for Figma.

Cory Etzkorn shares his experience with building Faker plugin. Overall it’s a good summary of work involved in shipping Figma plugin.

Airbnb’s chief design officer Alex Schleifer talked to TechCrunch. An interesting insight into how Figma helped them ship new features while working remotely: ​“We like to use as few tools as possible, but Figma is a game changer because people can see decisions being made live.”

Because of COVID-19, the design team at YML had to adjust quickly to a new reality of remote work. They switched from Sketch to Figma as so much of their work relies on collaboration, and now their team shares why.

Good tips on creating custom transitions, handling and organizing multiple flows in a prototype, and communicating during developer handoff.

“A spokesperson told TechCrunch that this deal was ​“opportunistic,” and that the company was in a strong cash position pre-financing. The new funding expands Figma’s runway during these uncertain times, with coronavirus halting a lot of enterprise purchasing and ultimately slowing growth of some rising enterprise players. “ Also interesting: ​“Field also added that he has not met other investors in this round in person, and the vast majority of the deal was done over Zoom.”

Forbes: ​“But Figma also plans to use the money to consider acquisitions and ​“acquihires,” in which a company will purchase a startup not for its intellectual property, but for its talent, as part of Figma’s next phase of expansion.”

Andreessen Horowitz: ​“Figma puts all the pieces together, and into more than the sum of those parts. What used to take four or five discrete tools can now be done end-to-end in Figma, the single source of ​“truth” for product design and design systems. […] Their community has taken off with a product-led virality that I haven’t seen since GitHub — extending beyond product designers and into product managers, marketers, and engineers.”

Dylan Field: ​“Today, I’m excited to share that Figma has raised a $50M Series D round of funding, led by Peter Levine and Marc Andreessen at a16z.”

You can now turn off the Figma toolbar and footer in Presentation View without going full screen.

A beta channel for the desktop app is now available — you can run it side-by-side with the existing stable desktop app.

Miguel Cardona teaches New Media Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and shares some of the activities that he does with students in Figma.

Great to see how Figma’s mission to make the design more accessible empower underrepresented communities.

Figma for Education program now includes online courses, bootcamps, school-sponsored hackathons, and more.