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Detailed step by step guide on how to build a private Figma plugin that will sync colors from your Figma library to a file with CSS variables on GitHub. Nice automation!

Figma wins in this comparison, but I’m most happy about seeing a solid competition from newer contenders.

All excellent and highly practical ideas. Can’t wait to see what Figma team decides to tackle this year!

An interesting model for collaboration in Figma, borrowing the best practices from the software development world. It defines a process where the team is solving one problem at a time by structuring the project in a specific way, applying naming conventions, and using version control.

Great lineup of speakers, including keynotes by Dylan Field (CEO at Figma), Craig Mod, Devon Zuegel (Product Lead at GitHub), and May-Li Khoe. They are going to livestream morning keynotes, so it’s worth registering for an invite.

Figma COO Amanda Kleha talks about different ways of connecting with and serving the community — Config user conference, meetups, ways to follow the company, and a beta of Figma Community.

The team at Zego switched to Figma and rebuilt their design system utilizing a modular approach based on Brad Frost’s atomic design structure.

Joann Feng shares some of the highlights of switching her team at Perpetual to Figma from Sketch and InVision combo.

“Everyone at Cuvva is empowered to use Figma to do their job through collaborative transparency.” Love how their team uses it not just with engineers but also with Customer Operations.

An old comment from Figma founder Dylan Field where he shares what they used to design the user interface of the app.

Thomas Gossmann shares his experience of developing Figma plugins and working with their APIs.

A deep and comprehensive comparison of Figma and Adobe XD at Envato Tuts+. There are unique strengths in both, but overall Figma wins hands-down.

Using his woodworking experience as an inspiration, John W. Long shows how to draw complex gear- and star-like shapes using rotation.

Deep dive into Figma’s incredibly powerful and unique inventions like the Arc tool and Vector Networks.

Last year WebNL team built a new and improved design system from the ground up. Daniël De Wit writes about their switch to Figma, researching designers’ needs, building design system starter kit, documenting it, and working hard to improve adoption among designers and developers.

A fascinating look at how Figma can evolve from a design tool to a visual communication and collaboration platform. Tom Johnson writes about use cases that are not possible today, but it’s exciting to think they might become a reality one day.

Use Figma for presentations? This is how to make any clicker work with it.

The story of how Dropbox Design migrated to Figma and structured their cross-platform design system.

Buzz Usborne writes how Help Scout migrated design systems from Sketch to Figma — why they made the switch, a step-by-step walkthrough of what it entailed, and what they got out of it.