Resources

Another after-party on Thursday, May 8 organized by San Francisco UXD with a fully reserved venue that includes a bar, entertainment, and special guests and product demos.

Detach is the premier after-party organized by Jesse Showalter, Tommy Geoco, Femke van Schoonhoven, and Soren Iverson on Wednesday, May 7 where the design community comes together to unwind, connect, and celebrate.

“Sort UI is the ultimate Figma UI Kit, designed to help you build and launch projects up to 10x faster.” Also available for Framer.

So excited to dive into it! ​“This file showcases the UI3 design language from Figma’s internal design system, featuring the styles, components, and variables that help Figma’s design team build products. By sharing this publicly, we hope to support other teams and creators, whether it’s with developing Figma plugins/​widgets, exploring ideas, or even creating your own design guidelines and UI Kits in Figma.”

Ever wondered what a specific design systems term means? Check out this glossary with detailed explanations of 33 common terms.

“Quantum Design System is a comprehensive, scalable framework designed to standardize and accelerate the design and development of digital products. It provides a cohesive set of components and tokens, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and accessibility across all interfaces.” Available for free.

To celebrate his four years at Figma, Keeyen updated his portfolio with the FigJam and Slides projects he contributed to.

Cool page curl prototype by Miggi. Don’t miss the page turn animation on click.

A creative workaround to turn text underline into color highlight with no hacks.

It’s time to sharpen your Figma skills! Figbruary is an entire month of Figma challenges organized by Vijay Verma. Every day, a new prompt from someone in the Figma community involves designing a UI, drawing an illustration, making a prototype, or creating an animation. Make something fun, share your work, and tag it with #figbruary or #figbruary2025.

Figma Community Forum got a big makeover in January. It’s a great place to ask questions or share your thoughts.

Marcus Farrell prepared a community resource with the new P3 color library used by Tailwind 4.

Rogie King made a lightweight, customizable web component library that uses Figma’s UI3 style. Great resource for making plugins!

FLOW library from Little Miss Robot is meant to be used for wireframing, but it can also easily be transformed into a small design system and evolve with your project simply by adjusting the variables.

In this deck, brand studio Smith & Diction explains their process and shares recent projects. You might be familiar with their brand identity for Perplexity, but my first exposure to their work was through local Philadelphia projects for Elixr Coffee, BOK Building, and The Rail Park. Ridd recently interviewed Mike and Chara, and it’s an inspiring conversation on craft, love of the game, brand strategy, and standing out in 2025 and beyond.

Free vector mockups of all models and colors of iPhone 16.

Luis Ouriach released a free shadcn/​ui Figma kit, including Tailwind colors, semantic light/​dark colors, typographic variables and styles, effects, components, example pages, and space utility variables. If you’re curious how it was made, Luis documented every step of the process, starting back in September of last year.

Nice hand-drawn brush strokes to use in your designs.

Brand designer Jamey Gannon made a commercial pitch deck template for early-stage founders raising VC capital. She built dozens of decks in her career for her own rounds or others and used this experience to design this template.

Joseph Mueller recreated the NYT Connections game as a fully playable Figma prototype. Took me a couple of attempts to solve, but I got it!