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“An appreciation piece on how well-modeled the Figma Community feature is and how it can possibly change the way the world designs digitally.”

Abigail Africa, a Student Fellow at Figma, on deciding whether or not to complete her degree this year in the middle of the pandemic. ​“Dylan, who left college to start Figma, offered to bring in other perspectives alongside his own. We invited a small handful of people we knew would be thoughtful on the topic to chat with Dylan over Zoom: Laura Deming, John Maeda, Marc Andreessen, Jeff Weiner, Karlie Kloss, and May-Li Khoe.”

Kiko Lam, an engineer on Figma’s collaboration team, shares her approach to the performance optimization project — investigating the underlying cause of slow performance, challenges with the existing implementation of comments, and the results of her work.

Dylan Field wrote about moving Figma towards a hybrid model, where both in-person office hubs and remote work is possible. I found this part from their internal survey especially interesting: “…almost half of employees currently based in San Francisco said they would consider moving to another city within commute distance if we offered multiple WFH days per week. Nearly two thirds of employees said they would consider moving to a non-hub location before the end of 2022 if all roles had the option to be remote.”

A few tips and plugin recommendations that helped Brendan Ciccone migrate six projects from Sketch to Figma in less than one week.

Lennon Cheng has a simple approach for documenting design iterations in Figma: create a documentation file in every project without access to libraries, then at every pivot point copy your current screen and paste it into that file. Without access to libraries, all components and styles will be detached and won’t receive future updates.

Tobias Negele, a Staff Product Designer at Shopify, shares their approach and template for organizing files and creating a predictable structure that engineers and other colleagues can easily understand and navigate.

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.