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This guide has (almost) nothing to do with Figma, but it’s a great resource about building remote processes in a design team. If your team went remote because of the lockdown, this is a good place to start.

The Enterprise Tech 30 is an exclusive list of the most promising private companies in enterprise tech, as determined by the number of votes from the prominent venture capitalists.

Plugins to accelerate managing, ordering, and labeling design system components. The recommendations are pretty good, but I don’t think it’s fair to call some of these plugins with thousands of installations ​“underrated”.

Solid collection grouped into categories like accessibility, collaboration, productivity, development, animation, and optimization.

How to speed up a tedious process of setting up a basic color system in Figma using plugins Smart Text and Chroma Color.

If one of the existing plugins won’t do it, Pavel Laptev explains how to build a plugin from scratch for populating layers with data from JSON files.

On a similar note, this post demonstrates how to get data to Figma from product information system (PIM) Crystallize using GraphQL Data Fill plugin. (The plugin is universal and can be used with other GraphQL services as well.)

The tutorial explains the concept of content-first design and shows how to connect real content to elements in Figma files.

In this short video, two Principal Analysts from Forrester Research discuss their takeaways and impressions from the conference.

One young designer, three amazing conferences. Great writeup by Michelle Chiu from MongoDB.

Elsma Ramirez from SoFi shares her notes from the conference and highlights talks and speakers that inspired her the most. Her favorites: ​“Welcome to a new decade of design” by Dylan Field, ​“The city guide to open source” by Devon Zuegel from GitHub, and ​“Design System Showcase”.

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.