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Dylan Field, CEO of Figma, reflects on the conference, Figma community, open design, and some key themes that emerged from a collective discussion.

Daniel Hollick wrote a 6‑part step-by-step tutorial for writing a color contrast checker plugin for Figma.

The team at Salsa Digital agency shared their experience of switching from Sketch to Figma. While they enjoy real-time collaboration, lack of ​“really-final-this-time-v5” files, and all the unique features of Figma, they also have some valid concerns about committing to it for a long time.

Samuel shares a few tips on organizing Figma files.

A list of 5 solid principles for building components — reusability, nesting, UI and UX patterns, reusing styles, and consistent naming structure.

“A strategy that may help ease some of the pain and confusion when deprecating unwanted components.” That’s something we all have to do from time to time, so I’m glad Steve Dennis documented his approach.

Great Ask-Me-Anything at Designer News with Noah Levin, Design Director at Figma. He answers questions about sourcing new design hires, interview process at Figma, internal and external transparency, latest product announcements, and more.

A thoughtful post-Config essay on the role of Figma multiplayer, designing in an open space, and community.

Fantastic overview of the conference and talks from Knut Melvær. If you have time to read only one piece from an attendee, this should be it.

Official recap of new features announced at Config. More responsive Auto Layout, an updated font picker, improvements to color selection, hyperlinking, and new prototype permissions settings.

Not a new help article, but a good reminder. I’ve seen a lot of panic on Twitter during the outage, but as long as you already have files open in the app and don’t close them, all changes should seamlessly sync when a connection is established again. Still, it’s worth manually saving .fig files from time to time while working offline or during the outage to have a backup.

In case you experienced an outage last week, this is a technical roundup of what happened. The most important part for designers: ​“We’re kicking off an initiative to ensure you can continue to work on your already open files safely after going offline even if you close your browser before coming back online.”

Figma announces integration with Maze, a service that provides design teams with UX insights from real users. You can also read the announcement at Maze.

Figma team shares how they’ve built a unified design system for their marketing site, then implemented it in Contentful CMS.

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.