Articles

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.

5 practical lessons for content designers on working content-first, collaborating with product designers, and using Figma to its wordiest potential.

A detailed guide on turning Figma design prototype into a native iOS or Android app without writing code. I’ve never used Bravo Studio before but it’s an interesting development in line with the current #NoCode trend.

An interesting observation that what we need next is states, styles groups, and variables. Yes, please!

Not sure if this post should be called ​“quick tips” as it mostly surfaces unresolved problems, but it’s an interesting look at the limitations of the current implementation.

Auto Layout can be used for so much more than just buttons and lists. This post shows how useful it is for working with copy and images.

An in-depth tutorial covering 3 common use cases for Auto Layout — button with an icon, content card, and a chat log screen.